Issues and wishes - mostly for Sub

[imilne]

Surely there's some way you can set the priority of the running tasks via a batch file so you could have the conversion run at 'below normal' or something. That way it wouldn't interfere with the CPU usage of NPVR/NRecord at all, although there might still be some HDD contention.

Iain

[Reddwarf]

Surely there's some way you can set the priority of the running tasks via a batch file so you could have the conversion run at 'below normal' or something. That way it wouldn't interfere with the CPU usage of NPVR/NRecord at all, although there might still be some HDD contention.

Iain

Yep, that's exactly what I did back in those days when I was short of harddisk space

[Grampz]

Well, it would work for me to do conversion processing after epg update runs as there are no scheduled recordings done in the wee hours of the morning. If anyone can help in creating a batch file to process files in the recording folders, I will assist all I can. I am uncertain how filenames are passed from the npvr database as I am guessing that the "%1" is used. Following is a clip from the convertvideo.bat file that I was using earlier. I also do not understand where the "%~dpn1.mp4" comes into play regarding the .bif and .png file creation process. Btw, the convertideovideo.bat file is called from the postprocessing.bat file within npvr.

Code:

"%roku_dir%\Third Party\HandBrakeCLI\HandBrakeCLI.exe" -i %1 -o "%~dpn1.mp4" -b 1500 -B 128 -R 48 -w 720 -l 400 -O -r 29.97
--custom-anamorphic --crop 0:0:0:0 --display-width 720

Member Ioanship developed this interface and do not know if he may be following this thread, or if he has the time to give his input..

Also, since I have built an htpc puter strictly for npvr's use there may be less cpu taxing issues. The unit houses amd 3500+, 2gb ram, 300gb drive (which I will add to), graphics and sound card are latest with current drivers, and Win Vista os.

Greg

[OTAjunkie]

"What HandBrake Is, What HandBrake Isn't~

~HandBrake is not everything for everyone for every need. When you desire a ChickenSandwich, search out a local purveyor of prepared foodstuffs. When you desire an über-tool for all your video encoding needs, learn how to use the command line and seek out projects like mencoder."
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If you use mencoder you can remove commercials and convert in one op after running comskip. You'll need the space because 60gb of adds is lot on a 300 gb drive

[Grampz]

f you use mencoder you can remove commercials and convert in one op after running comskip. You'll need the space because 60gb of adds is lot on a 300 gb drive

So am I to try figure out this reply received? More confusion to me. Mencoder conversion removing commercials after comskip in one operation. I cannot follow this post as it makes no sense to me! Btw, as stated before, I will pop a bigger drive in when time allows. Was in original npvr box....

60 gb of adds? Really? A recording is about 8gb total..

Greg

[OTAjunkie]

You take your recording "*.ts" and run comskip.exe on it.

Then you run *.ts and the EDL file with comclean3.bat (which uses MEncoder) to remove the commercials (every hour of network TV is 27% commercials)
300gb hard drive = (20-35gb OS+Apps) + (260gb of recordings). 27% of 260gb is 70.2gb. That is to say that by getting rid of the commercials you free up 27% of storage.

In addition, you can further reduce the size of the file by converting to from TS to AVI by configuring the MEncoder output file parameters in the comclean3 file.

You will find comclean3.bat and MEncoder.exe at the comskip dnld page.

You may find the effort to learn more about MEncoder very useful because as a result of the flooding in Thailand, there is a shortage of hard drives. eg Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green was $85 now it's $189