mediainfocomparefiles

#!/bin/bash
#set -exu
exclude="html5ified-dummy.mkv|llc-edl.csv"

echo -e "ABOUT:\nThis bash script is using already installed \"mediainfo\" utility to compare files in a directory regarding defined video parameters\n"
echo -e "USAGE: scriptname \"DirectoryPathContainingVideoFilesToCompare\"\n"

if [[ "$1" == "" ]]; then exit; fi

while read -r file; do
mediainfo "$file"|grep -E "Complete name|Codec ID|Width|Height|Sampling rate|aspect"
echo -e "\n"
done <<< "$(ls -A1 "$1"|grep -Ev "$exclude")"

echo -e "Need to show only files with non standard values? Then use for example grep -v phrase to exclude phrases that are common for most of the files based on the above output."

echo -e "\nMaybe you have found a few files with uncommon values, for example with a bit rate 44.1 kHz where most of the files have 48 kHz?
If you want to merge all files, maybe you need to upsample all 44 kHz files to 48 kHz, maybe try command like:

read -r -p \"Input video file path/name to convert:\" f && read -r -p \"Input file extension:\" e && ffmpeg -i \"\$f\" -vcodec copy -ar 48000 \"\$f\".48kHz.\"\$e\"
"