in a for loop just 2 kind of extentions

[zimbot]

Friends

I have a for loop where i loop through a dir full of video files - call an ffmpeg cmd and make mp4

I do that like so ( a snippit )

or /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.*') do
now this does my command on every file in that dir ( that i have already cd'd to )
it will work nicely on iether f.avi or f.mov ..... good
but it will *also* try to make a mp4 from a txt file ....which is not good

here is my question can i limit it to 2 declared extentions
like
or /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.avi OR *.mov') do

meaning it works on all file.avi all file.mov but ONLY those 2

so far I have solved this by 2 for loops
1 for *.mov and 1 for *.avi

thanks

jS

[Squashman]

You were close.
You can do this two ways.

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FOR %%G IN (*.avi *.mov) do .....

or

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FOR /F "delims=" %%G IN ('dir /a-d /b *.avi *.mov') do....

[zimbot]

ok thanks but now I have this problem

my ffmpeg cmd was this


ffmpeg.exe -i %%a -y -vcodec libx264 -b:v 4110000 -pix_fmt yuv420p -g 12 -bf 3 -b_strategy 1 -coder 1 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -sc_threshold 40 -me_range 16 -me_method hex -subq 5 -i_qfactor 0.71 -qcomp 0.6 -qdiff 4 -s 1280x720 -acodec aac -strict -2 -ar 48000 -b:a 128k %destDir%\%%~na.mp

so when i did
or /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.*') do

and had dog.mov i would end with dog.mp4

now with
FOR %%G IN (*.avi *.mov) do
what do i do for the " %%~na.mp4 "
because now if i have 3 mov ...it overwrites and leaves the last as actually %%~na.mp4
i tried %%~ng.mp4 and i get a file actually named %%~ng.mp4

thanks

[Squashman]

I always use an UPPERCASE G for my FOR variable. The FOR variable is case sensitive. It also helps with visually identifying which letters are the command modifiers and which one is the FOR variable.

[zimbot]

ummmph

yes
%%~nG.mp4

works nicely

thanks again!