h265ize

A Docker image for h265ize, to make it easy to convert videos to h.265.

Getting Started

docker run -d --init \
  --name h265ize \
  -u <UID> \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -v </location/to/video/files/input>:/input \
  -v </location/to/video/files/output>:/output \
  adriel/h265ize

Replace <UID> with your user's ID, you can get this by running id -u, e.g. -u 1002 .

This is to make sure the container can read/write your input and output directories.

How does it work?

Once your container is up and running move or copy a video to your input directory and h265ize will automatically start converting it to h.265 as per your settings. It won't convert any files already in the input folder when the docker container is started, only new/added files.

A file will appear straight away in the output directory while it's still being converted, please wait for it to finish converting before moving it out, or else you'll have a half converted file. In a future update to h265ize it will append, .h265tmp to the end of a file while it's being converted.

Optional parameters

You can add your own parameters.

Set quality

For example, you may want to change the default quality from 19 to 25 (higher number = lower quality/smaller file)

docker run -d --init \
  --name h265ize \
  -u <UID> \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -v /location/to/video/files/input:/input \
  -v /location/to/video/files/output:/output \
  adriel/h265ize -q 25

Note the -q 25 added after adriel/h265ize.

You can add any of the options mentioned on the official h265ize GitHub page after the image name.

Paths in container

Directory where video files are you want to convert to h.265: /input

Directory where converted h.265 videos will be created: /output

Production use

It's recommended to add the NODE_ENV environment variable and Node.js memory limits.

docker run -d --init \
  --name h265ize \
  -e "NODE_ENV=production" \
  -u <UID> \
  -m "300M" --memory-swap "1G" \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -v /home/yo/dockers/h265ize/docker_files/input:/input \
  -v /home/yo/dockers/h265ize/docker_files/output:/output \
  adriel/h265ize

Info - program versions

h265ize - latest code on the master branch as the latest NPM version doesn't support the --watch option.

Node.js - latest version, 7.8.0.

Shell access

docker exec -it h265ize /bin/sh

Logs

docker logs -f h265ize

Change log

12/11/2022 - Updated to node v19 11/04/2017 - initial build.

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