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Written by Markus Döhla

Markus Döhla

Category: Scripts

13 May 2018

Perl script which can be used with Cygwin or WSL to generate a Handbrake queue file file.
My purpose was to shrink some of my handycam videos which were stored as .MP4.

You could easily create your own queue with your settings.

• Choose one of your files
• Select the encoding profile you want
• Add to queue
• Open queue
• Export queue as somefile.hbq and open it
• Remove xml-header and <ArrayOfQueueTask> start and end tags
• Keep only your <QueueTask>...</QueueTask> with those tags and save it as task_template.xml alongside this script into the start folder from which you will start your find
• Edit
  
  • <ScannedSourcePath>D:\Someplace\___SOURCE___</ScannedSourcePath>
    <Source>D:\Someplace\___SOURCE___</Source>
    <Destination>D:\Someplace\___DESTINATION___</Destination>
• This assumes you copy the task_template.xml and the script to /mnt/d/Someplace
• Replace the rest of your path with ___SOURCE___ and ___DESTINATION___
• The script will add the found .MP4 files (if you have others, just alter the script) to ___SOURCE___ and will add the same filename to ___DESTINATION___ as .mkv (you may alter this to your needs too).
• Edit $fileDir in the script to fit your linux style start-path
• Fire the script in a bash at the start-path location and it will generate a file called handbrake_final_queue.hbq

Import this file back into your handbrake queue and you should see all the jobs for all your files found under the start path.

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