#! /usr/bin/python import subprocess, argparse def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Call ffmpeg for converting small video files to mp4 or webp') parser.add_argument('input', help='input file or url') parser.add_argument('output', help='output filename') parser.add_argument('-s', '--start', help='start time, if not 00:00') parser.add_argument('-t', '--to', help='end time, if not end of file') parser.add_argument('-q', '--quality', help='quality of output, as a percentage') args = parser.parse_args() f_args = [] if "https" in args.input: # get direct urls from youtube-dl urls = subprocess.run(["youtube-dl", "--get-url", args.input], capture_output=True, encoding='utf-8') for url in urls.stdout.split('\n'): if len(url) > 10: f_args += ["-i", url] else: # local file, or single local http stream f_args += ["-i", args.input] if args.start: f_args += ["-ss", args.start] if args.to: f_args += ["-to", args.to] if ".webp" in args.output: f_args += ["-vcodec", "libwebp"] f_args += ["-preset", "default"] f_args += ["-loop", "0", "-an", "-vsync", "0"] f_args += ["-qscale", args.quality if args.quality else "70"] subprocess.run(["ffmpeg", "-y"] + f_args + [args.output if args.output else "output.mp4"]) if __name__ == "__main__": main()