Automated Cutting and Transcoding Guide Using Mencoder

[pastro]

Stattik,
I was thinking about building a transcode queue into skiptool. It would be alot easier to build on what you have already done and call your script from a plugin with the file and options to be transcoded. Any thoughts on a way to make an interface between the two make sense and consistent for future revisions?

[stefan]

Here is the link. Drop it in the mplayer/mencoder folder.

http://sourceware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/so...eadGC2.dll

Ah, thank's. Should I have been able to tell if I read the install instructions more carefully?

[-stattik-]

Ah, thank's. Should I have been able to tell if I read the install instructions more carefully?

Pthreadgc2.dll is required for the build of mencoder/mplayer you're using. It's not required for my script.

[-stattik-]

Stattik,
I was thinking about building a transcode queue into skiptool. It would be alot easier to build on what you have already done and call your script from a plugin with the file and options to be transcoded. Any thoughts on a way to make an interface between the two make sense and consistent for future revisions?

I'd be open to suggestions. My script doesn't really take any arguments other than the file to be transcoded. What kind of options are you suggesting?

[pastro]

I'd be open to suggestions. My script doesn't really take any arguments other than the file to be transcoded. What kind of options are you suggesting?

I would think ideally the plugin would set all of the options that you normally look for and then execute the script with these parameters. That way all of the options could be set via the remote from your couch.

[stefan]

Pthreadgc2.dll is required for the build of mencoder/mplayer you're using. It's not required for my script.

Ah, I see. I got confused. Thank's!

[-stattik-]

I would think ideally the plugin would set all of the options that you normally look for and then execute the script with these parameters. That way all of the options could be set via the remote from your couch.

I'll look into getting the script to accept arguments with options listed from the Guided Transcode.

[-stattik-]

Help please. I cannot get this to work. I set the directories information then I dragged and dropped a file on the processor. It creates the .info file but then it does nothing.
I have included the part of the transcoder that I changed and the info file
Thanks

I need the output.

Change the first line of the script to @ECHO ON
Open a DOS window.
Drop the script in the window.
Add a space. Drop the file to be transcoded in the window.
Hit enter.
Post the output here.


Thanks.

[pastro]

I'll look into getting the script to accept arguments with options listed from the Guided Transcode.

That would be great. Ideally, I would mimic your options and set them all via the GUI and then call your script.
Thanks.

[-stattik-]

That would be great. Ideally, I would mimic your options and set them all via the GUI and then call your script.
Thanks.

Ok, here's the updated script. Here's are the options it should take:

argument %2

Code:

1 = xvid/mpeg2 -Fixed Bitrate -Good size control, good quality, good speed
2 = xvid       -Fixed Quant   -Limited size control, better quality, good speed
3 = xvid/mpeg2 -Two Pass      -Best size control, better quality, slow speed
4 = x264       -Fixed Quality -Limited size control, better quality, slow speed
5 = x264       -Two Pass      -Best size control, better quality, slow speed

argument %3

Code:

y/n  Inversed Telecined(IVTC)

argument %4

Code:

1  = Automatic    (Let the script decide.)
2  = Full Res     (The resolution will not be scaled.)
3  = Letterbox    (This will crop out the horizontal black bars on a 4:3 picture
)
4  = Pillarbox    (This will crop out the vertical black bars on a 16:9 picture)
5  = Cartoon      (XVID only)
9  = Cut and Copy (This will use an edl file to only cut out commercials)

Here's the accepted format:

Code:

"C:\path\to\stattik_transcode_0.5.1g.bat" "C:\path\to\show.mpg" "encode mode" "ivtc" "profile(s)"

So if you wanted to create a fixed quality xvid file and apply IVTC, Cartoon optimizations, and letterbox stripping, you would create the following string:

Code:

"C:\path\to\stattik_transcode_0.5.1g.bat" "C:\path\to\show.mpg" "2" "y" "3 5"

The part of the script that allows it to accept arguments from your plugin is SET guide_mode=config_from_app. Typically this is set to yes.

Hope this helps.