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Runs mp4box with command lines

sderenzi
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Sep 25, 2007, 12:54 AM

Post #1 of 3 (2130 views)

Runs mp4box with command lines	Can't Post

It's simple, I want to run mp4box on OS X, I've found a precompiled version for the PPC and I asked a fellow if he could make me a perl script that would run the following on any .aac files inside a folder.

mp4box -add filename.aac filename.m4a

It's very easy to do manually but there's like 300 files in the folder, could someone help fix this script cuz I can't figure out why it doesn't work, here's what it looks like:

Code

#!/usr/bin/perl 
 
use File::Find; 
 
$basedir = "<path-to-your-folder>"; 
 
find( sub { 
  next unless /(.*)\.aac$/; 
  $fn = $1; 
  $cmd = qq(mp4box -add "$fn.aac" "$fn.m4a"); 
  print "$cmd\n" 
  system $cmd; 
}, $basedir );

Now the error I get is:

Quote

syntax error at line 12, near "system" Execution of run.pl aborted due to compilation errors

So what am I missing? Basically it's searching for any files that are in the directory which are .aac, then it goes on to place them in the full command mp4box -add filename.aac filename.m4a

Can someone fix this?

(This post was edited by sderenzi on Sep 25, 2007, 12:57 AM)

KevinR
Veteran

Sep 25, 2007, 1:13 AM

Post #2 of 3 (2123 views)

Re: [sderenzi] Runs mp4box with command lines [In reply to]	Can't Post

thisline is missing the ending semi-colon:

print "$cmd\n"

needs to be:

print "$cmd\n";

see if that helps
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sderenzi
New User

Sep 25, 2007, 1:30 PM

Post #3 of 3 (2118 views)

Re: [KevinR] Runs mp4box with command lines [In reply to]	Can't Post

You are right! Thanks man, I was totally confused lmao Here's the final perl I used:

Code

  #!/usr/bin/perl   
  
use File::Find;   
  
$basedir = "<path-to-your-folder>";   
  
find( sub {   
  next unless /(.*)\.aac$/;   
  $fn = $1;   
  $cmd = qq(<path-to-mp4box> -add "$fn.aac" "$fn.m4a");   
  print "$cmd\n";   
  system $cmd;   
}, $basedir );

And I got this to run in Terminal

Code

 find <path-to-your-folder> -name '*.m4a' -exec <path-to-mp4box> -raw 1 {} \;

(This post was edited by sderenzi on Sep 25, 2007, 1:32 PM)

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