Automated Cutting and Transcoding Guide Using Mencoder

[DrDDT]

Ok, got it. This should fix it.

Thanks for working with me on this. Tell me how it works out.

The conversion is running now.
Thank you for fixing it for me this quick!

[DrDDT]

The conversion is running now.
Thank you for fixing it for me this quick!

Works fine now....

[Royle]

This utility seems to work great for most of my recordings, but for some reason a recording of Little Nicky from TBS won't run. Here's what I get from the output:

Code:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Mike>cd D:
D:\

C:\Documents and Settings\Mike>D:

D:\>stattik_transcode_0.4b.bat "Little Nicky - - - 1_26_2007 - 5_40 AM.mpg"
stattik's Mencoder Automation Script
Version 0.4
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Variables Loaded. Script is starting.
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Now Processing "Little Nicky - - - 1_26_2007 - 5_40 AM.mpg"
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Copying EDL file to create PTL file.
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Getting source file info...  Ignore any errors for the next 4-6 lines ;)
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c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring
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Cannot load bitmap font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
Seek failed
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Checking to see if source file matches any transcode profiles.
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Applying automatic encoding logic to source file.
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The command(s) used for the current transcode are listed below.
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Flagged as Standard

D:\>start /low /wait /min C:\Progra~1\mplayer\mencoder.exe "Little Nicky - - - 1
_26_2007 - 5_40 AM.mpg" -edl "D:\Little Nicky - - - 1_26_2007 - 5_40 AM.edl" -sw
s 9 -demuxer 35   -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=3:me_quality=6:chroma_me:no
qpel:chroma_opt:vhq=4:bvhq=1:trellis:hq_ac:quant_type=mpeg:turbo -oac mp3lame -l
ameopts abr:br=128 -vf pp=ci,scale=640:480,hqdn3d=3:2:3:3 -fps null -ofps null
-o "D:\Little Nicky - - - 1_26_2007 - 5_40 AM.avi"

D:\>ECHO off
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Transferring metadata to destination file if it exists.
The system cannot find the file specified.
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Transcode is complete.
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Copying PTL file to create DNE file.
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Cleaning up extra files.
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Script is finished.
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D:\>

Neither Comskip or MEncoder starts up, and there is no .avi file created. Thanks for creating this utility but can I have some help with this?

[-stattik-]

Hi Royle,

Are you using the new 0.4b version of the script? Is looks like you are having the same problems as DrDDT did above in that your FPS is defaulting to NULL. I assume that your video is PAL. The 0.4b version contains a fix for that issue.

Hope this helps.

[DarkCanuck]

After recording a show, I get these two files...

Ride Guide_20070128_02300300.mpg 1.465GB
Ride Guide_20070128_02300300.edl 1kb

This show was 30mins long, and by just looking at the size, I know that it wasn't transcoded properly. Anyway I can create a debub/log file to see what is going wrong so I can post it here?

I'll include my PostProcessing.bat as well if that'll help.

[-stattik-]

After recording a show, I get these two files...

Ride Guide_20070128_02300300.mpg 1.465GB
Ride Guide_20070128_02300300.edl 1kb

This show was 30mins long, and by just looking at the size, I know that it wasn't transcoded properly. Anyway I can create a debub/log file to see what is going wrong so I can post it here?

I'll include my PostProcessing.bat as well if that'll help.

To create a log/debug file open a DOS window. Drop the script in it, add a space and drop the file to be transcoded. In the script SET debugmode=yes, save the change, and hit enter. Make your way through the script until you reach the end and copy and attach the output. I'll take a look at it.


Thanks.

[DarkCanuck]

Here is my debug log file...

[-stattik-]

Although I haven't gone over the entire logfile, I think I found the issue. Set testmode=no or set it to the amount of seconds you want the test clip to be. Currenty you have test_mode set to yes which is causing mencoder to error out.

[DarkCanuck]

Beautiful! Seemed to have fixed the problem!

Seems to take forever to encode though. 150minutes for a 30min show?

[-stattik-]

Beautiful! Seemed to have fixed the problem!

Seems to take forever to encode though. 150minutes for a 30min show?

How fast is your processor? My Athlon 64bit 3200+ will do a 30 minute program in about 25 min. I'm currrently using mplayer2007.01.21.Athlon-64. The official MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1 build runs three times slower for me.

You can get processor-specific builds here:

http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/mplayer/

The script is designed to give high quality transcodes so there aren't many ways to speed things up other than using a smaller resolution. Try a processor-specific build and se how that works.