cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19003650

vt-enc is a bash script that simplifies the process of encoding videos with FFmpeg using Apple’s VideoToolbox framework on macOS. It provides an easy-to-use command-line interface for encoding videos with various options, including codec selection, quality settings, and scaling.

  • Within cat EOF syntax you can just use variables and commands as well. Just tested it and I see the problem here. The EOF syntax will not interpret the backslash and print them literally. So those variables would require to be interpreted with echo -e first. I never used colors in this syntax before. It’s up to you which syntax you prefer, some people still like the series of echos over cat EOF.

    BOLD='\033[1m'
    RESET='\033[0m'
    BOLD=$(echo -e "${BOLD}")
    RESET=$(echo -e "${RESET}")
    
    help_options() {
      cat %%EOF
    options:
      -h ${BOLD}show help and exit${RESET}
    
      $(date "+%Y-%m-%d")
    EOF
    }
    
    help_options