konti/massento repository overview

⁠video-transcoder

⁠Description

massento is a platform independent script to encode videos written in python. It uses ffmpeg to encode the videos. As a main input parameter it takes a folder and walks throw the folder structure, searches for video files which has not been encoded yet. Optionally the input parameter can be a single file.

⁠Configuration

⁠Environment variables

• MASSENTO_LOGLEVEL
• MASSENTO_INPUT
• MASSENTO_OUTPUT
• MASSENTO_DELETE_SOURCE
• MASSENTO_SCAN_DELAY
• MASSENTO_CODECS

⁠Memo

Config variable evaluation precedence

• command line argument
• env. variable
• config file
• hardcoded

Config file location precedence

• command line
• HOME/.massento/config.json
• on POSIX: /etc/massento/config.json, on Win LOCALDATA/massento/config.json