Automated Cutting and Transcoding Guide Using Mencoder

[tal56]

They wont open at all, and I can't even open it in virtualdub mpeg2 mod.

I'm using medial player and media player classic.

When i use gspot I get this under the "container" :

Multipart OpenDML AVI
(198010 frames in first part, 4691 frames follow)
Interleave: 42 ms (1.0 v.frames), preload=504
Audio frames: Aligned on interleaves

And in the "user data" part in gspot I get some lines that look like this :
[ISFT] MEncoder 1.0pre7-3.4.2
[JUNK] MPlayer junk data
[JUNK] MPlayer junk data
[JUNK] MPlayer junk data
[JUNK] MPlayer junk data

I've only noticed it on 2 files so far, both movies from tv and both were over 1 gig in avi size.

Thanks for looking into this.

[-stattik-]

They wont open at all, and I can't even open it in virtualdub mpeg2 mod.

I'm using medial player and media player classic.

When i use gspot I get this under the "container" :

Multipart OpenDML AVI
(198010 frames in first part, 4691 frames follow)
Interleave: 42 ms (1.0 v.frames), preload=504
Audio frames: Aligned on interleaves

And in the "user data" part in gspot I get some lines that look like this :
[ISFT] MEncoder 1.0pre7-3.4.2
[JUNK] MPlayer junk data
[JUNK] MPlayer junk data
[JUNK] MPlayer junk data
[JUNK] MPlayer junk data

I've only noticed it on 2 files so far, both movies from tv and both were over 1 gig in avi size.

Thanks for looking into this.

Were there any .PTL files in the directories that had the corrupted files?

[tal56]

No, just the avi and the mpeg file. The script is working fine for all other files, it seems to be only these ones over 1gig that's having problems. I'm running Windows 2000 SP4 and have made avi's with virtualdub over 1 gig without problems. Also I'm not running comskip on the files.

[Noelix]

I have a question - how can I get mencoder to run in the background or minimized so it doesn't pop up in front of GB-PVR?

[-stattik-]

I have a question - how can I get mencoder to run in the background or minimized so it doesn't pop up in front of GB-PVR?

How are you running the script? Is it your postprocessing.bat file? Or are you starting it from another process like dirmon? I've attached an updated version of the script that minimizes mencoder.

[Noelix]

How are you running the script? Is it your postprocessing.bat file? Or are you starting it from another process like dirmon? I've attached an updated version of the script that minimizes mencoder.

I'm running dirmon2. Also I've had an issue with the 0.0.10.x version of the script in which it gets itself into a looping problem. It will encode a video, and then instead of deleting the mpeg and moving on to the next recorded show, it starts encoding the same show over again. I left my pvr alone all weekend and saw it was working all the time to realize it was encoding the same show over and over all weekend. In the batch file I had the option to delete the source mpeg file on so it should have deleted it, and after the mpeg is gone dirmon2 will stop looking for that file. I'll take a look at the changes you've made in this so I can implement the minimize function into your 0.0.9.x script that seems to be working smoothly for me. Thanks for the assist.

[-stattik-]

I'm running dirmon2. Also I've had an issue with the 0.0.10.x version of the script in which it gets itself into a looping problem. It will encode a video, and then instead of deleting the mpeg and moving on to the next recorded show, it starts encoding the same show over again. I left my pvr alone all weekend and saw it was working all the time to realize it was encoding the same show over and over all weekend. In the batch file I had the option to delete the source mpeg file on so it should have deleted it, and after the mpeg is gone dirmon2 will stop looking for that file. I'll take a look at the changes you've made in this so I can implement the minimize function into your 0.0.9.x script that seems to be working smoothly for me. Thanks for the assist.

What profile are you using when the looping occurs? I'll take a look at it.

[Noelix]

Cartoon is the profile I generally use.

[-stattik-]

In the batch file I had the option to delete the source mpeg file on so it should have deleted it, and after the mpeg is gone dirmon2 will stop looking for that file.

I found the problem with the files not being deleted. The updated script is attached.

I tested the new script with Dirmon1 and had no problem with looping. I'll try with Dirmon2 later.

Typically, dirmon looks for the avi file and not the mpg file when deciding what to process. It it finds an avi file, it will go on to another file. If it doesn't find an avi file, it looks for an edl file and then loads the mpg into mencoder.

[Noelix]

I found the problem with the files not being deleted. The updated script is attached.

I tested the new script with Dirmon1 and had no problem with looping. I'll try with Dirmon2 later.

Typically, dirmon looks for the avi file and not the mpg file when deciding what to process. It it finds an avi file, it will go on to another file. If it doesn't find an avi file, it looks for an edl file and then loads the mpg into mencoder.

Thanks a bunch I'll give it a shot and let you know how it turns out.
I encountered those looping issues you found below so I'll try the latest version (0.0.10d) and see if they're all ironed out. I'd be happy to help out writing instructions for the wiki, I'll try and lobby for it as well.