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Convert in background

Asked by jaseemabid

how do i convert a video in background ? I am running a shell script to convert few videos in a folder at once. Now one video is converted only when the previous one finish converting. How can i manage this issue ? Is there a way to send it to the background ? something like a -b option or --no-verbose ?

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ogg.k (ogg-k-ogg-k) said : 		#1

If you really want to do several videos at once (as in, you have several cores), then you can do something like:
find -name \*.avi | xargs -P4 -n 1 ffmpeg2theora
(untested, just off the top of my head).
Replace the find with whatever generates hte list of files you want to convert, and the 4 with the number of jobs you want to happen concurrently. Should work...

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