Auto encode some shows for smartphone

[mrming]

Marvellous - thanks reven. I'll try and get this started over the weekend and I'll post my results here. Here's goes nothing *gulp*

EDIT - I've just realised that (unless I'm missing something) this would result in all my shows getting archived whereas I would like to choose certain key shows. Would it be possible to do a wildcard match on the filename or show title in the PostProcessing.bat to decide whether to archive the show? I've never written or edited a batch file before so apologies if this is a) easy, or b) impossible!

[reven]

i dont think it would be possible with pure batch files, but you could do it with scripts using something like cgywin (i think its the name), just basic unix scripts on a windows machine (ive only ever done this in linux, but i know you can do it in windows).

[Rich]

I have it currently set so it would archive the show after it gets done recording... postprocessing.bat...

I also want to make a file that would go along with my Java program that would let me specify what shows I wanted to have transcoded... so if for instance, "Tilt" recorded and was in the list, it'd get done, but if "American HotRod" was recorded, it woudln't get transcoded.

That's just one of those little extra I can add easily, just haven't gotten to it.

[mrming]

Thanks guys. I'm going to try and use a combination of command line PHP and FFMpeg as I already know PHP and it's installed on my machine. I'll let you know how I get on...

[Rich]

Where did you find the ffmpeg executeables? I don't have the patience to download and compile that source code, and everywhere I've looked has come up dry...

Windows wise, at least...

[mrming]

http://nic.dnsalias.com/ffmpeg.exe

[Rich]

Now if I could only figure out those options... :|

Any hints? Simple divx encoding?

[mrming]

Here's the documentation.

http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC24

I haven't had a try yet but the options look pretty hairy alright. I'll let you know if I have any joy...

[mrming]

OK here's a call to ffmpeg which will turn an mpeg2 source file into a 186k avi measuring 220x176:

ffmpeg -i g:\temp\test.mpg -b 186 -s 220x176 g:\Temp\test2.avi

[Rich]

I've tried to run this several times now, ffmpeg with...

ffmpeg.exe -i test.mpg -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 320x240 -b 1500 ttt.avi

and it gets about 250 frames in, and then crashes hardcore....  this is from an mpeg made from GBPVR...  has anyone else run into this so far?

EDIT: Figured it out... it doens't like it if you skip audio options, if you've got audio in your mpeg... Though I can't get it to do mp3 audio... looks like you have to have it compiled with "LAME" enabled from the start?