Recording Auto Transcode

[VCR58]

I am curently using the Recording Auto Transcode 1080p (.mp4) setting. I want to see how well this will work with the NextPVR Roku app as I have trouble with OTA signal quality at times and I am hoping this may help.

Of course this means I have no PostProcessing script running and therfore I can't run Comskip automatically. Is there any way I can use both the Recording Auto Transcode setting and run a PostProcessing scriopt (with Comskip)?

I assume the answer is no. So, the next question is, are there any other ways to use NextPVR to run Comskip?

Thanks.

[sub]

It’s not currently possible to do that. If you’re using a post processing script, you’d have to just do the mp4 conversion in the script. Ultimately the default conversion stuff is just running a ffmpeg command to do the conversion so pretty easy for you to replicate.

[sub]

Actually wasn’t there a post conversion script? You might be able to run comskip in there.

[mvallevand]

You added PostVODProcessing but I don't think there is anything for automated transcoding. I thought the design was for PostProcessing to run before the automated transcode begin. A ts comskip file should work with a transcoded file since the skips are based on time not a file position.

Martin

[sub]

I thought the design was for PostProcessing to run before the automated transcode begin.

If you've got a PostProcessing script, it assumes you're going to do any conversions and other processing yourself, and doesn't run the simple built in transcoder.

If you've got a custom script, it's pretty painless to also add the steps to do the same type of transcoding.

[spin35]

I'm currently experimenting with Auto Transcode, then I found this thread which tells me that postprocess.bat disables the auto-transcode.  I currently do transcode in my .bat file but I leave the .ts in place because I want to preserve the playback functionality in the web-client and Kodi.  I figure that if the .ts isn't where the .xml tells us, then things will break.  I figured that the auto-transcode would update the .xml to replace the .ts with .mp4(or whatever), so I was hoping that auto-transcode would run AFTER the postprocess.bat.
Given that this isn't the case, are there any suggestions for a quick and easy way to update the .xml so it points to the transcoded file rather than the original recording?

[sub]

You can use:

nscripthelper -rename <oldtsfilename> <newfilename>

and it'll update the data base to point to the new file.

[spin35]

You can use:

nscripthelper -rename <oldtsfilename> <newfilename>

and it'll update the data base to point to the new file.

I've just to run D:\Program Files\NextPVR>NScriptHelper.exe -Pending and it failed.  I got:
[1] Unable to login

Just found the page in the Wiki on how to use it...
Yep - working, all good.

I have discovered though that I don't really need to touch the .xml as Kodi and the UI Client aren't fussy - if the .ts isn't there it will play the .mp4 with the same filename in the same folder.

[mvallevand]

I'm currently experimenting with Auto Transcode, then I found this thread which tells me that postprocess.bat disables the auto-transcode.  I currently do transcode in my .bat file but I leave the .ts in place because I want to preserve the playback functionality in the web-client and Kodi.  I figure that if the .ts isn't where the .xml tells us, then things will break.  I figured that the auto-transcode would update the .xml to replace the .ts with .mp4(or whatever), so I was hoping that auto-transcode would run AFTER the postprocess.bat.
Given that this isn't the case, are there any suggestions for a quick and easy way to update the .xml so it points to the transcoded file rather than the original recording?

If you use auto-transcode the mp4 file created will play in the browser without transcoding or remuxing.  The primary downlside to this is losing AC-3 audio plus the one size fits all transcoding isn't at all optimized so the ts file might be better quality. I say might because the mp4 remux does smooth out some ts file errors.

The only thing that I know uses the xml file is NextTool and I specifically ignore the internal filename.

Martin