Convert a video to MP4 format and maybe embed English subtitles.

Requires ffmpeg to be installed or to be available on PATH.

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/jborbely/convert-mp4.git

Usage

Can be run with or without a configuration file

convert-mp4 [config.json]

Configuration File

The following key-value pairs are supported:

• root_dir: (str) directory to initially start in when prompted to select a video
• extensions: (list[str]) the file extensions that can be converted

For example,

{
  "root_dir": "C:\\Videos\\Movies and TV shows",
  "extensions": ["avi", "mkv", "mp4"]
}