Media Batch

Context: $ARGUMENTS

Fan a single ffmpeg/ImageMagick/ffmpeg-normalize command out across a folder (or a cluster) with GNU parallel, a joblog, and resume-on-failure. The goal is senior devops-for-media quality: idempotent reruns, no lost work, CPU/IO sized to the machine, no interactive prompts.

Quick start

• Transcode a folder of MOVs to MP4: → Step 3, "simple parallel transcode"
• Resume a batch that failed halfway: → Step 4, --resume-failed
• Batch resize a photo library: → Step 3, ImageMagick recipe
• Loudness-normalize a podcast library: → Step 3, ffmpeg-normalize recipe
• Distribute encodes across SSH nodes: → Step 3, --sshloginfile
• Turn an ad-hoc shell one-liner into a managed pipeline: → use scripts/batch.py

When to use