Hello,
I have a 4TB hard drive with 573 folders in it. They are standard DVD rip folders. Each folder is a ripped DVD with a main folder and a VIDEO_TS sub folder etc.
I need to encode each folder to a h.264 .m4v file. I thought Handbrake had batch conversion and it sort of does. But it's going to be very time consuming because you have to add each movie folder to the queue manually, which would take a week. Ok, maybe just a few hours, but it's sure to be error prone because of human error.
I'd like to have a good program with GUI to do this but a script will work. I'd like to keep it as simple as possible for myself and other users, but I'm open to any suggestions that work. I'm going to copy them all to a new 3TB HDD as they are encoded to h.264, then move them back to the original 4TB HDD after the size is reduced. I'm hoping to end up with 600 GB or so of h.264 movies with a lot of free space on the 4TB drive. I figured someone has done something similar and there isn't any point in reinventing the wheel. Thank you.