IMAGE/VIDEO SCRIPTS

When moving media files from Google Photo to another cloud, I had to create a way to automate the convertion of a lot of images (we're talking about 10k+ images) while retaining one of the most important aspect of the file: the creation date.

I created those scripts to aid myself in this task, recently I made them more interactive.

• creationdate-image.sh
  This script can be used for retaining the creation date field for images

• creationdate-video.sh
  This script can be used for retaining the creation date field for videos

• image-avif.sh
  This script can be used to convert the images to AVIF.
  Personally I had to convert images from PNG, JPEG and JPG... it's case-sensitive for now so when it asks for the format, the format shall be inserted precisely.

Dependencies required:

• avifenc

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• deduplicate-frames.sh
  When preparing a file for interpolation, I must prepare them by eliminating excess frames or, should the framerate value be really off that its real value, changing the framerate then eliminating the excess frames.
  This second step is called deduplication, which is the process that will eliminate the duplicated frames, so that the interpolation will run smoothly without wasting CPU/GPU power AND, most importantly, the result will be perfect, without stuttering due to duplicated still frames (which would negate the interpolation).

This script is more complex to use: it has two modes, it'll ask for a the destination file's codec (I personally use ffv1 since it's lossless (this makes it perfect for multiple manipulation steps of a video file)) and it'll ask for a format.

I think I'll soon make it so it defaults to mkv since it supports everything, so that a (mostly) useless step can be eliminated.

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MISC SCRIPTS

beammp-autoinstall.sh

When helping a friend with a technical issue for BeamMP on linux I realized that the building instructions for BeamMP-Launcher on Linux were, let's say, not up to my standards.
I created a script that creates a Dockerfile, builds the container (which will build the launcher, using an Ubuntu 22.04 image) and will copy the compiled launcher in the current working directory.

UPDATE: Since 24 October 2025, the script will also update the cloned repositories, so that it can also be used for updating BeamMP-Launcher.
It compiles the main branch, so that you can receive the really latest fixes.

It's that easy