I'm trying to get an applescript to combine .mkv's with .srt's after i added those files to a folder.
I've managed to do the automatic conversion from mkv to mp4 and add them to itunes. The only thing that I cannot accomplish is to get the srt automatically.
I also can do this in the Terminal window, one "mkv" at a time. The command that is working fine for me to do this, is:
ffmpeg -i movie.1.mkv -sub_charenc WINDOWS-1252 -i movie.1.srt -vcodec copy -acodec copy -scodec mov_text -metadata:s:s:0 language=por movie.1.mp4
I have the mkv file with the same name as the srt file.
The apple script I'm using to do the batch conversion is:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
tell application "Finder"
set fold_name to the name of this_folder
try
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in added_items
set new_item to item i of added_items
set the item_path to the quoted form of the POSIX path of new_item
if name extension of new_item is "mkv" then
do shell script " /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i " & item_path & " -vcodec copy -acodec libfaac " & item_path & ".mp4"
else if name extension of new_item is "mp4" then
tell application "iDentify"
activate
open new_item
end tell
end if
end repeat
end try
end tell end adding folder items to
I'm a newbie in the applescript, and the thing why i don't get it to work is, that the script returns in the end a file called movie.1.mkv.mp4 created from the movie.1.mkv. That means that I'm not abble to get in the variable "item_path" only the filename without the extension. Perhaps it's very easy, but i didn't manage to do it.
Can anyone please help? Thank you