video_transcoding

Why we included this project

Lisa Melton wrote these tools to transcode her own Blu-ray and DVD collection, and they are built for exactly that job: three standalone Ruby scripts that wrap HandBrake and FFmpeg instead of reinventing encoding. The main one re-encodes essential tracks into a smaller, portable format while keeping quality close to the source, and the companions detect unused crop regions and move files between Matroska and MP4 containers without re-encoding. Because they are plain scripts you clone and put on your PATH, they run on Windows, Linux, and macOS with no service to operate or maintain. Anyone who wants repeatable, scriptable video preparation, whether for a personal library or before feeding clips into a larger pipeline, can drop them into existing automation without much ceremony.