GUI for simple script

[JollyJamma]

Hi all

I’m trying to take a video conversion script that I’ve added to Automator and create a GUI for it where I can select the videos I want to convert and the output file type from the interface to not have to go through 20+ videos one by one using a quick action script from the (right click) context menu.

I want to take 480P AVI video and convert it to 1080P MP4 X264 or X265.

I see many many Windows apps like BalenaEtcher which look great but are just a simple GUI to execute a scripted with custom variables.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can learn to do this for OSX?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: I think I've found something that'll work for me. I'd still like to be able to create a GUI for my own scripts in the future though so please reply to this thread if you know how.

HBBatchBeast​

maybe Tdarr will work too.


Right now, this is the script I'm running using quick action command added in Automator - I can only convert one video file at a time and select and highlighting more than 1 video doesn't convert all of them, just one.

originalFilePath=$1
uuid=$(uuidgen)
uuidFilePath="${originalFilePath%.*}-$i.mp4"

# Execute ffmpeg conversion
/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg -i "$originalFilePath" -vf scale=1920x1080:flags=lanczos -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 21 "$uuidFilePath" > /dev/null 2>&1

# Check if ffmpeg was successful
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    osascript -e 'display notification "Video conversion completed successfully" with title "Conversion Success"'
else
    osascript -e 'display notification "Video conversion failed" with title "Conversion Failure"'
fi

 

[Cromulent]

Edit: Ignore. I was wrong.

 

[whitecrook]

#!/bin/bash

for originalFilePath in "$@"; do
    uuid=$(uuidgen)
    uuidFilePath="${originalFilePath%.*}-${uuid}.mp4"

    # Execute ffmpeg conversion
    /opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg -i "$originalFilePath" \
        -vf scale=1920x1080:flags=lanczos \
        -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 21 \
        "$uuidFilePath" > /dev/null 2>&1

    # Check if ffmpeg was successful
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        osascript -e "display notification \"Converted: $(basename "$originalFilePath")\" with title \"Conversion Success\""
    else
        osascript -e "display notification \"Failed: $(basename "$originalFilePath")\" with title \"Conversion Failure\""
    fi
done

OR a gui

#!/bin/bash

# Ask user to pick multiple files
files=$(osascript -e 'set chosenFiles to choose file with multiple selections allowed
repeat with f in chosenFiles
    set contents of f to POSIX path of f
end repeat
return chosenFiles')

# Loop through each selected file
IFS=$'\n'
for originalFilePath in $files; do
    uuid=$(uuidgen)
    uuidFilePath="${originalFilePath%.*}-${uuid}.mp4"

    /opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg -i "$originalFilePath" \
        -vf scale=1920x1080:flags=lanczos \
        -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 21 \
        "$uuidFilePath" > /dev/null 2>&1

    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        osascript -e "display notification \"Converted: $(basename "$originalFilePath")\" with title \"Conversion Success\""
    else
        osascript -e "display notification \"Failed: $(basename "$originalFilePath")\" with title \"Conversion Failure\""
    fi
done

You could also wrap this script in an Automator Application instead of a Service. Then you can drag and drop multiple files onto the app icon, and it will process them all.

 

[JollyJamma]

Legend!