MC-ENCODE(1p)

🌸 MC-ENCODE ✨

okay bestie, so this is mc-encode, a lil Perl script (it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your manual, section 1p if you're keeping track) and its whole thing is: it uses the Media::Convert library to transcode a file from one format to another. that's it. that's the gig. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

mc-encode — use the Media::Convert library to transcode a file from one format to another 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mc-encode --input input.mkv --output output.webm --profile webm
--multipass

like, literally that. look at her go. 👑

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

--input=FILE

Use FILE as the input file to read video data from. it gets passed unmodified straight to ffmpeg(1)'s -i parameter, no notes, no edits, no vibes-checking in between. there is no default and it is required, so like… don't skip her. she's not optional, bestie. 😭

--output=FILE

Use FILE as the output file to write the transcoded video to. passed unmodified to ffmpeg(1) as the output file name, fr fr.

default? okay so if you don't say anything, it takes the base name of the input file (with whatever comes after the final dot removed, if there even is anything after the final dot) and then slaps the default extension for whichever profile you're using onto it. cute, right? ✨

--acopy

Enable the acopy option on the Media::Convert::Pipe being used. what does that do? it tells ffmpeg that it should not transcode the audio — just copy it from one container to another, unmodified. no touching. hands off. 🙈

--vcopy

Enable the vcopy option on the Media::Convert::Pipe being used, which does to video exactly what --acopy does to audio. same energy, different stream. 🌈

--multipass

Enable a 2-pass transcode. two passes. twice the commitment. slay. 🔥

--profile

Select the profile to be used. that's it, that's the whole option, pick your profile bestie 💜

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and that's the whole page!! no cap, that's genuinely everything. this manual page is from perl v5.40.1 and it's dated 2026-02-15, and it's the MC-ENCODE(1p) page, so like… go forth and transcode, you icon. 🫶🎀💖