Linux

Remux MTS (AVCHD) files to MKV using mkvmerge in linux

This post came to life because I did not manager to get my newly aquired Raspberry Pi 512MB version revision 2 running raspbmc to play my MTS files without freeze/rebuffering. One solution was to overclock the Arm processor to 1000MHz, but then I struggled to find a way to get the CPU temperature down. The […]

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Linux

Rename AVCHD files using Exiftools

Simple bash script to rename AVCHD/MTS/MOV files to match their recording date and time. #!/bin/bash if [ -z “$1” ]; then echo “Usage: ./rename_video.sh FILETYPE” 1>&2 echo “Example: ./rename_video.sh *.MTS” 1>&2 exit 1 fi for x in “$@” do exiftool ‘-FileName<DateTimeOriginal’ -d %Y%m%d_%H%M_%%f.%%e “$x” done The resulting files will be named like YYYYMMDD_HHMM_BASENAME.ext ie 20120703_1635_05600.MTS […]

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