encode-xav-68bt

encode-xav-68bt

A command line ffmpeg wrapper for encoding videos in a format suitable for playback on the Sony XAV-68BT head unit.

The encoder matches input files with the file extensions .mkv, .mp4 and .webm.

Output files are downscaled to a width of 720px, saved in the .avi format at 3000k video bitrate, with MP3 audio at 192k bitrate. These encoder settings are not currently configurable.

Installation

Install ffmpeg (e.g. with choco install ffmpeg -y if you use Chocolatey).

Run npm install -g encode-xav-68bt from a command line.

Usage

Run encode-xav-68bt inputDirectory outputDirectory

The input directory and output directory are required parameters, and they must either be specified in order as above, or using the flags described below.

Options

Flag	Description
-t X	Number of threads with which to render videos in parallel (if unspecified, defaults to the number of CPU cores in the machine)
-i, --input, --inputDirectory "inputDirectory"	Path to a directory containing videos that should be encoded
-o, --output, --outputDirectory "outputDirectory"	Path to the directory where encoded files should be saved (will be created if it does not already exist)