A watch directory for encoding videos

I was wondering what would be the best way to go about making a watch directory routine in bash. Essentially i want a bash script to watch a directory and when a file is added it will automatically encode using ffmpeg and x264? Are there any external utilities to help with this function?

I just found mencoder doesn't utilise the cores properly when deinterlacing and piping to x264 I got better performance. I'll look into incron tomk, thank you so much.
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