Nautilus script to convert a screencast recorded in webm to mp4
- Copy the contents of the
convert to mp4file in this repository to a file calledconvert to mp4inside your~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/directory. One way of doing that is as follows:
git clone [email protected]:Dinika/convert-webm-to-mp4.git
cp convert\ to\ mp4 ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ # Note the escaped spaces in the "convert to mp4" file.- Make the file executable:
cd ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/
chmod +x convert\ to\ mp4
- Test the script. Right click on a file inside the "files" (a.k.a nautilus) application. Under the Scripts option, you should see another option called "convert to mp4". Clicking this option should run this script. If the file you selected was a
webmormp4file, it should be converted to an mp4 file. Otherwise you should see a warning message.
You can choose to call the file convert to mp4 anything you want. The name of this file is the "label" that will show in the nautilus context menu that's why I went with the name above (even though it has spaces). It just felt a bit more human friendly to me.
Unfortunately, the conversion to mp4 depends on some non-free drivers. If the script does not work, try installing them. On centos or fedora OS this can be done as follows
sudo dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf -y install ffmpeg
sudo dnf -y install ffmpeg --allowerasing
sudo dnf -y install ffmpeg-devel
sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-\*,good-\*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel
sudo dnf install lame\* --exclude=lame-devel
sudo dnf group upgrade --with-optional MultimediaThis software is distributed under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL Version 3)