mTranscode BETA - automatic encoding of recordings

[erik]

mmmm.
As I expected.
Renamerecordings is using a different log file format as renamerecording
See what I can do for the script.

[reboot]

Working on using your other script for newname.
Here's the idea...I hope it works.
Comskip runs, videoredo runs, then renamerecordings.
Using rename to %newname% and writing the transcode_queue.txt file thus:

Code:

echo %newname% >>"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Transcoder\transcode_queue.txt"

(is this right?) then running mencoder.
This should work, and also allow me to have config.ini use USEEXTDIR=1 to move the cleaned and renamed avi.
Anything wrong with my logic or syntax?

[erik]

I tried to work with the other log format

Here it is.
Not tested of course

Code:

@echo on

Renamerecordings %1 >renamerecordings.log

rem Process all the lines from the Renamerecording log file
set newname=%1
for /F "usebackq delims=' tokens=1,2,3,4,5" %%i in ("renamerecordings.log") do call :processline "%%j"  "%%l"
goto :afternewname

:processline
rem Remove
if NOT "%~x2" == ".mpg" goto :eof
set oldname=%~1
set newname=%~2
rem Comskip %newname%
rem Call Comclean %newname%

goto :eof

:afternewname
pause

:eof
pause

[jam_zhou]

Reboot,

USEEXTDIR=1 will move the transcoded file into one directory - no sub directories. The intent for this was so that all the movies are in one place for easy access to transport to portable devices.

The key here is no directory structure whatsoever. Is this what you want?

Other than that your flow is correct. Good luck.

[reboot]

I think I have it right.
Please triple check this portion of my .bat:

Code:

REM the following calls videoredo to edit the file, then renamerecordings.
cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" "%~dpn1.VPrj" "%~dpn1_Cleaned.mpg" /t1 /q
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
REM testing rename to newname section---------------------
rem Process all the lines from the Renamerecordings log file
set newname=%1
for /F "usebackq delims=' tokens=1,2,3,4,5" %%i in ("renamerecordings.log") do call :processline "%%j"  "%%l"
goto :afternewname

:processline
rem Remove
if NOT "%~x2" == ".mpg" goto :eof
set oldname=%~1
set newname=%~2
rem Comskip %newname%
rem Call Comclean %newname%

REM goto :eof

:afternewname

echo %newname% >>"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Transcoder\transcode_queue.txt"
echo %newname% >>"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\transcode_queue.txt"
REM end testing rename to newname section-------------------

REM Testing mencoder section------------------
REM This is the transcoding portion
echo %1 >>  transcode_queue.txt
cd "C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Transcoder\"
start /min /low mtranscode.vbs
REM end mencoder test section ------------------

:eof

Edit: Yes, I'm moving all avi's into one folder, no subfolders (although that would be nice too!)

[jam_zhou]

why are you making so many transcode_queue.txt files? You only need one queue in the gbpvr directory.

As it stands you make one in transcoder and the gbpvr directory then you add the original file into the queue as well. I suppose this would make sense if you want to transcode both the original and the cleaned file. If this is the case then I'm not sure what will happen if postprocessing.bat gets called before before the transcoding is done. LilYoda is having this issue with the built in transcoder.

Basically, if the if the queue is right then the script will work.

Also, I will think about having the option of keeping the directory structure for moving files...it shouldn't too hard. I've only got two months before my first child

[reboot]

I wasn't sure exactly which one was being used. I've since deleted the extra line.
What's NOT happening, is the renamed filename being passed into transcode_queue.txt

[jam_zhou]

here's how it goes...
IMPORTQUEUE=0 will use only the queue in the mtranscode.vbs directory as specified in the config.ini file

IMPORTQUEUE=1 will use the queue in the mtranscode.vbs directory, but once that is done it will look for the queue specified in EXTERNALQUEUE

I did this because it makes it easier for test and also for those who want to run mtranscode on their own files. Also, I didn't want to access the queue.txt file the same time as gbpvr might be writing to it.

[jam_zhou]

post a log of renamerecordings for me...also give me an example of all the new names that you have...let me see if I can help.

[reboot]

OK, trying again with importqueue=0
I still think there's something with getting the renamed filename into transcode_queue.txt
In the .bat there are these lines, the first added by me

Code:

echo %newname% >>transcode_queue.txt"

and the other added by you

Code:

echo %1 >>  transcode_queue.txt

Which one will give me the properly renamed filename (providing erik's code works)?
Should I REM out one of these?