I would like to improve on this script, by adding test the source file to see if it is already HVEC/H.265 if so skip it. Not sure how to do this?

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Module: RoughDraft

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instead of ffmpeg, maybe you can try https://github.com/stax76/Get-MediaInfo

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Maybe look at FFEncoder (https://github.com/patrickenfuego/FFEncoder) to see how they might be detecting file encodings

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Maybe there is an EXIF or IPTC Or ICC Metadata tags that ExifTool (https://exiftool.org/) can expose that.

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