ChromecastConverter

1-click solution to convert single video or entire collection to Chromecast compatible format.

• Different from other converters because this is dedicated to Chromecast.
• It's faster than other converters because it checks if the current video streams are compatible with Chromecast and only converts what is necessary.
• It also extract subtitle streams (if available) so they can be send to Chromecast.

FFMPEG:

This software is a FFMPEG wrapper and it heavily relies on ffmpeg and ffprobe be available in the path.

That means that if you type ffmpeg and ffprobe in the command line it should give an output with the installed version

FFMPEG can be freely downloaded from the official site https://ffmpeg.org/download.html

For a better audio quality it is HIGHLY recommended FFMPEG V3.0 or higher as per this commit http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=d9791a8656b5580756d5b7ecc315057e8cd4255e

Installation:

Simply unzip the files and that's it.

Execute by running ./cc_converter (or cc_converter.bat on Windows) from the command line

Usage:

./cc_converter <opts>
   -i,--input <arg>     Input file or folder
   -o,--output <arg>    Output folder (optional)
   -q,--quality <arg>   Quality: high, normal, low. Default is high (optional)
   -s,--speed <arg>     Speed: ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast,
                        medium, slow, slower, veryslow. Default is slow (optional)
   -f,--force           Force conversion (even if input codecs are correct)
   -d,--delete          Delete the original file upon successful conversion
      --DEBUG           Debug mode with more logs

For more about quality and speed parameters check the official FFMPEG docs:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264

ChromecastConverter uses CRF (constant rate factor) and defaults to good quality for both audio and video.

• high quality = video CRF 18, audio 80kb/s per channel
• normal quality = video CRF 23, audio 64kb/s per channel
• low quality = video CRF 26, audio 48kb/s per channel

Examples:

• Default values, single video, result in same folder

./cc_converter -i ~/Videos/awesomeVideo.mkv

• Default values, single video, result in different folder

./cc_converter -i ~/Videos/awesomeVideo.mov -o ~/Videos/chromecast/

• Default values, entire collection to different folder

./cc_converter -i ~/Videos/ -o ~/ChromecastVideos

• Default values, entire collection to different folder, delete after success conversion

./cc_converter -i ~/Videos/ -o ~/ChromecastVideos -d

• Single video, result in same folder, low quality, fast conversion

./cc_converter -i ~/Videos/awesomeVideo.avi -q low -s fast

• Single video, result in different folder, lossless, very slow conversion

./cc_converter -i ~/Videos/awesomeVideo.3gp -o ~/Chromecast/ -q 0 -s veryslow

That's the base functionality that I wanted for it for my personal use, but I'll be super happy to accept PullRequest contributions.

Developed by budius:

• http://stackoverflow.com/users/906362/budius
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=nothing+inc
• http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2699870