Automated Cutting and Transcoding Guide Using Mencoder

[chemie]

"hiderun.exe" did not do what I wanted (did not seem to be able to pass the mencoder parameters properly). Tried "posthaste.exe" with same problem (better GUI than hiderun though).

Then I found "dirmon2" and it did the trick
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16318

I schedule it to run at night. It scans the directories and runs comskip and Stattik's script which calls mencoder with the right parameters. It then runs a batch file to move the avi to another folder.
(This is what I wanted to do; keep original mpeg and encode an avi to another directory). Yes, Stattik script should do this but I never got the directory monitoring to work and could not move the avi even with inserted DOS commands in his file.

dirmon2 is a very slick program with functionality I will likely use in the future.


Thanks

[-stattik-]

When running as postprocessing.bat, is there a way to hide comskip and mencoder? I tried hiderun.exe but it did not "wait" for the program to finish (I assume because hiderun took over). Is there a "silent" option so I do not have MS-DOS windows in the program bar.
Thanks.

I'm not aware of any way to hide them.

[chemie]

That's is why dirmon2 does the trick. It will hide the running of the files.

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16318

works great; good GUI. runs as a process and hide everything it runs.

[lstepnio]

I have a specific recordings that is being flagged a PSP3. I'm not seeing why this is happening.

The filename is "Late Show With David Letterman-080130-No Episode - (2008-01-29).ts" This a HDTV capture. The other shows I'm testing againsts are being flagged as HiDef.

[-stattik-]

I can't see any reason it would get flagged as psp3 unless the script is having problems with the parenthesis. You could test without them. Either way, if you send me a debug I'll look at it.

[lstepnio]

The recording of Lost was deleted by my wife so i guess i'll watch for the fluke in the future.

I'm now running into an issue where commericals are not being cut out with any recordings. I had this working fine in the past when i played around with the encoder scripts but now no matter what i try it encodes the full show.

[-stattik-]

I'm now running into an issue where commericals are not being cut out with any recordings. I had this working fine in the past when i played around with the encoder scripts but now no matter what i try it encodes the full show.

Here's the problem:

SET dontuse_edl_patterns="+edl" ".ts"

Should just be:

SET dontuse_edl_patterns="+edl"

It was set to ignore edl processing for .ts files. I had this set because my comskip doesn't always catch all the commercials and I forgot to remove it before releasing the script. I'll remove it for the wiki version.

PS: I notice that you use the mkv container and 1280x720 x264(crf18) with ac3 audio. How does that work out for you? What kind of bitrates/filesizes do you typically get? When I plan to upgrade to hdtv in a few months, I'd like to use similar settings.

Thanks.

[lstepnio]

That did the trick for commericals.

I still haven't had any luck with mkv/x264 encoding. The last encode resulted in no video and audio only. I'll post the results once I get something that works. I'm going to try a newer version of mplayer.

[-stattik-]

I tried mkv with mp3 and ac3 audio and they both worked. I'm using mencoder.2007.12.03.

[lstepnio]

I'm really not having luck with the mkv container. The video data is in the encode but the video just pin isn't rendered when testing in GraphEdit. I tried VLC and video is rendered but is very-very-very jumpy/jerky. I'm able to build a correct DS graph with any other mkv file I throw at my system and I verified on multiple(3) machines.


http://www.majjix.com/tmp/020508.mkv

I'm using a lower resolution for testing but here is the mediainfo output:

Code:

General #0
Count                : 178
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream       : General
StreamKindID         : 0
Inform               : Mk: 134 MiB, 21mn 27s
Count of video strea : 1
Count of audio strea : 1
Count of text stream : 0
Count of chapter str : 0
Codecs Video         : MPEG-4 AVC
Audio codecs         : MPEG1/2 L3
Complete name        : C:\Documents and Settings\Luke Stepniowski\Desktop\Welcome to the Captain-080205-Pilot.mkv
Folder name          : C:\Documents and Settings\Luke Stepniowski\Desktop
File name            : Welcome to the Captain-080205-Pilot
File extension       : mkv
Format               : Mk
Format               : Mk
Codec                : Mk
Codec                : Mk
File size            : 140288728
File size            : 134 MiB
File size            : 134 MiB
File size            : 134 MiB
File size            : 134 MiB
File size            : 133.8 MiB
PlayTime             : 1287912.000
PlayTime             : 21mn 27s
PlayTime             : 21mn 27s 912ms
PlayTime             : 21mn 27s
PlayTime             : 00:21:27.912
Bit rate             : 871418
Bit rate             : 871 Kbps
Writing application  : Lavf52.1.0
Writing library      : Lavf52.1.0

Video #0
Count                : 77
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream       : Video
StreamKindID         : 0
Inform               : 624*352 (16/9), MPEG-4 AVC
ID                   : 1
UniqueID             : 1
Codec                : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Codec                : MPEG-4 AVC
Codec/Info           : MPEG4 ISO advanced profile
Codec/Url            : http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Getting+ffdshow
Width                : 624
Width                : 624 pixels
Height               : 352
Height               : 352 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 1.773
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9

Audio #0
Count                : 62
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream       : Audio
StreamKindID         : 0
Inform               : 48 KHz, 2 channels, MPEG1/2 L3
ID                   : 2
UniqueID             : 2
Codec                : A_MPEG/L3
Codec                : MPEG1/2 L3
Codec/Info           : MPEG1 or 2 Audio Layer 3
Codec/Url            : http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/index.html
Channel(s)           : 2
Channel(s)           : 2 channels
Sampling rate        : 48000
Sampling rate        : 48 KHz
SamplingCount        : 61819776
Resolution           : 16
Resolution           : 16 bits

edit: The "( )" in the filename is confirmed to cause issues; any possible fix?