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I was wondering if there is a way to alter the group/permissions of newly encoded files from the command line arguments of VLC. My files keep outputting as -rw-r--r-- and I'd like them to just be -rw-rw-rw-. Is this possible?

Also is there a way to retrieve the expected new file size from vlc? I am trying to write a ruby script that will monitor a folder and do my encoding for me but I would also like it to output the % complete.

thanks