mTranscode BETA - automatic encoding of recordings

[kayleigh]

Do you have your default script engine specified? Try putting Wscript.exe or Cscript.exe in front of the command to troubleshoot. (Put //X at the end of the commandline to run in debug mode.)

Code:

start /low cscript "c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\transcoder\mtranscode.vbs" //Nologo

[jam_zhou]

hey sorry guys, my bad for not testing this thoroughly.

here's the fix...I just tried it at home in a batch file.

cd "{directory of mtranscode.vbs"}
start /min /low mtranscode.vbs

Note, if you have mtranscode in a different drive then you will have to change drives as well in the batch file.

Hope you guys can get it working.

[SniperDude]

reboot... verify your system can execute VBS scripts... most security patches/programs will disable them...

[reboot]

No, I know I can. I have a couple of other .vbs scripts I run.
It was the directory problem I think.
I'll test some more and let you know.

[reboot]

Latest test threw this up.
OK, I solved that error somehow, but looking through the log, I found a new problem.

I have comskip, then videoredo removes commercials, then renamerecordings, then mencoder.
Renamerecordings is changing the whole procedure.
It's renaming the file, then changing the name of the original to include "_original.mpg" at the end of the filename.
mtranscode.vbs (or whatever) can't find the file, because of the added extention.
Is there a way to have mencoder do it's thing on the already renamed (thus commercials removed) file?

[jam_zhou]

Reboot, does this thread help?

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...recordings

Essentially, you want to make the queue after rename recordings...I don't use that so I'm not sure how it works. I'll look into it though.

[reboot]

Partial Success!
Modified the naming scheme thus:

Code:

Rem RENAME the old .mpg file and rename the new one to the old name
move "%~dpn1.mpg" "%~dpn1_original.mpg"
move "%~dpn1_cleaned.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"
RenameRecordings %1 > renamerecordings.log
move "%~dpn1_original.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"

I now get a commercial free mpg, and a transcoded avi, but with the commercials still in it
There's gotta be a way...

Edit: I looked at that thread, and I'm not sure it works for me, for a couple of reasons.
I run everything in parallelprocessing.bat, so comskip is done when the recording ends, and I use videoredo to "see" the comskip output, and remove the commercials automatically, then renamerecordings, then mencoder.
Because of the videoredo.vbs file, I need things in this order. I may be able to modify it (working on that now), to see if it will pick up the renamed file.
If you have any ideas, this is the code that calls videoredo:

Code:

cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" "%~dpn1.VPrj" "%~dpn1_Cleaned.mpg" /t1 /q

I really need to have renamerecordings, it's essential, so if anyone has a workaround...

[jam_zhou]

Huh? Reboot, if you have access to the new name after it's cleaned so readily, why don't you use:

echo %newname_cleaned% >> transcode_queue.txt

[erik]

reboot,

can you post or mail a log file of renamerecordings where it actually renamed a file so I can check my script that tries to pick up the new name so you can run all the tools after renamerecordins?

[reboot]

Here's a log of one of my tests.

Code:

File 'D:\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear_20051215_09110936.csv' renamed to
     'D:\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear\Take It Away Ben; Auctioning Edgar.csv'
File 'D:\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear_20051215_09110936.log' renamed to
     'D:\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear\Take It Away Ben; Auctioning Edgar.log'
File 'D:\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear_20051215_09110936.mpg' renamed to
     'D:\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear\Take It Away Ben; Auctioning Edgar.mpg'
File 'D:\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear_20051215_09110936.txt' renamed to
     'D:\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear\Take It Away Ben; Auctioning Edgar.txt'
File 'D:\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear_20051215_09110936.VPrj' renamed to
     'D:\The Secret World of Benjamin Bear\Take It Away Ben; Auctioning Edgar.VPrj'

As you can see. I put each recording into it's own folder via gbpvr, then renamerecordings renames everything.

What I'm testing right now, is doing the transcode after comskip/videoredo, but BEFORE renamerecordings, and it should work, and I'll have to manually move the transcoded file to it's other location (same drive, different folder) which isn't really a problem, as I can append something like:

Code:

move *.avi d:\avis\*.*

after renamerecordings (I haven't really worked out the syntax yet).

Edit: Doesn't work having renamerecordings after the transcode
I mean, transcoding works, but renaming doesn't.