Help Setting Up a Post-Processing Batch File

[SuperDinoYoshi]

Hi,
I've been reading around the wiki and forums, and have seen talk about how easy it can be to set up GBPVR to record videos, cut the commercials, and then transcode them to say, mp4. I've seen a few batch files to download, but I don't understand where they belong, and I don't know how to tweak them.

Is there any where for me to learn how to set these things up?
I want recordings to be cut of commericals, and then transcoded for an ipod, but still leave the original recording in tact, in case the commercial cutting messes up

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for any replies, sorry about this topic being one that gets brought up a lot.

[ApexHack]

REM If you use comskip, unREM the next line
REM "C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\comskip.exe" %1
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
echo %date% %time% renaming "%~dpn1.mpg" to "%~dpn1_original.mpg" >>postprocessing.log
move "%~dpn1.mpg" "%~dpn1_original.mpg"

echo %time% renaming "%~dpn1_cleaned.mpg" to "%~dpn1.mpg" >>postprocessing.log
move "%~dpn1_cleaned.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"

echo %time% moving "%~dpn1_original.mpg" to H:\Originals >>postprocessing.log
move "%~dpn1_original.mpg" H:\Originals

echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.log" >>postprocessing.log
del "%~dpn1.log"

echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.txt" >>postprocessing.log
del "%~dpn1.txt"

echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.VPrj" >>postprocessing.log
del "%~dpn1.VPrj"

echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.logo.txt" >>postprocessing.log
del "%~dpn1.logo.txt"

This is mine. I'm cutting commercials, renaming the cleaned file to what GB-PVR will recognize, moving the original file to another directory and then cleaning up the temp/log files.

Cheers

[SuperDinoYoshi]

Whats the easiest way to add transcoding to this?

[ApexHack]

That's a good question. I've never tried to automate transcoding.

I see options for transcoding in GB-PVR, but know nothing of how it works. Sorry I can't help more.

Cheers

[wake]

Very possible!

I am currently only an older version, but stattik's transcode script is excellent for this purpose. You can find info here:

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utili...anscodeCut

The main thing is it's going to use a combination of Mencoder, Comskip and XviD to produce the resulting file. This newer version has a lot of options and the wiki tells how to do most things.

For starters, grab the file under the Download section. It'll be a batch file (if it's a text file rename it to .bat). You can edit that batch file to your liking, and drag one of your recordings on it (after you follow the instructions to download the appropriate programs). It'll run through comskip and make the commercials, then transcode according to your settings in the file. You can even set it in test mode and it'll take a short clip from your recording so you can test the quality!

After you find it's doing its job, you can rename the batch file to PostProcessing.bat and place it in your main gbpvr directory. It'll then run after a recording is finished, and you will now have an automated transcoding solution.

Still have questions? Check out the huge thread.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=10606

[SuperDinoYoshi]

I've downloaded it, but in the instructions it says not to include spaces. If I just delete them out of the paths to the programs it needs will it work, or do they need to be replaced by something?

I also don't understand why it needs to keep running, it asks for a timeset to check if there are any new recordings, isn't it run automatically by GBPVR?

[wake]

I've downloaded it, but in the instructions it says not to include spaces. If I just delete them out of the paths to the programs it needs will it work, or do they need to be replaced by something?

I also don't understand why it needs to keep running, it asks for a timeset to check if there are any new recordings, isn't it run automatically by GBPVR?

yes deleting out the spaces is fine.

It runs automatically when a recording is done, so I'm not sure what to really answer here.

[SuperDinoYoshi]

When I deleted the spaces, running the script caused errors saying that the programs couldn't be found...