{"id":470,"date":"2025-12-21T15:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimandnoreen.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:08:03","slug":"bulk-converting-videos-for-tinytv-using-ffmpeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimandnoreen.com\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Bulk converting videos for TinyTV using FFMPEG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TinyTV 2 is a a cute device for playing video content. It comes preloaded with a handful of short clips. You can also easily load your own videos, movies, and TV shows using the\u00a0TinyTV Converter<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>– a free\u00a0<\/strong>tool\u00a0to convert any MP4 file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Converter is limited to processing one file at a time. I recently needed to convert a folder containing a couple hundred .MP4 videos to the .AVI format used by TinyTV. To accomplish this task, I used the open source tool FFmpeg to do a batch conversion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following example assumes you have already installed the FFmpeg<\/a> command line tools. Here are the steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Open a terminal window and navigate to the folder where the images are located. Example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cd source_images<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2. Create a folder for the converted images:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mkdir output_images<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
3. Run this command to process images and place the converted files into the output_images folder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
for f in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i \"$f\" -r 24 -vf \"scale=210:135,hqdn3d\" -b:v 1500k -maxrate 1500k -bufsize 64k -c:v mjpeg -acodec pcm_u8 -ar 10000 -ac 1 \"converted\/${f%.mp4}.avi\"; done<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
See this forum post<\/a> for alternate scale settings and further discussion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TinyTV 2 is a a cute device for playing video content. It comes preloaded with a handful of short clips. You can also easily load your own videos, movies, and TV shows using the\u00a0TinyTV Converter\u00a0– a free\u00a0tool\u00a0to convert any MP4 file. The Converter is limited to processing one file at a time. 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