An automatic script to convert .mov files to .mp4 (or anything ffmpeg supports, e.g. .mkv), re-index the Nextcloud database and clean up afterwards
- Download
mov-2-mp4.shand place it somewhere on your nextcloud server - Make it executable:
chmod +x mov-2-mp4.sh - Chown it so your web server can use it:
chown www-data:www-data mov-2-mp4.sh - Edit www-data's crontab (so the script always runs in the background):
sudo crontab -u www-data -e - Add the following to the crontab:
* * * * * /path/to/script/mov-to-mp4.sh(this runs every minute: to run once a day at midnight, use0 0 * * *instead at the start) - (If you don't have it) download
ffmpeg, e.g.sudo apt install ffmpeg(Ubuntu)
Super simple - just change these variables in the script:
| Variable | Default | Comment |
|---|---|---|
root_folder |
/mnt/nextcloud |
Place where nextcloud keeps your stuff |
installation_path |
/var/www/nextcloud/public_html |
Place where the web server keeps nextcloud source files, leave off last slash |
old_extension |
.mov |
The old extension to convert from |
new_extension |
.mp4 |
The new extension to convert to |
safe_mode |
true |
Renames .mov files as .mov-old, so you can recover (setting to false deletes .mov files permanently after conversion is done!) |
ignoregrep |
(not set) | Files to ignore for error messages - use if you have files that find would say "Permission denied" if it tried to scan - e.g. hidden folders that www-data is not permissioned for |
Optional stuff
- If you have postfix installed, you can add
[email protected]at the top of the crontab file to get notifications when this script processes something (it only sends mail when it finds something, so running it each minute with crontab* * * * *won't mail you each minute!)