mTranscode BETA - automatic encoding of recordings

[jam_zhou]

I'm working on a couple of more scripts for my own use...

searcholdfiles.vbs - will search for files older than a set number of days
deleteoldfiles.vbs - will delete the files found from searcholdfiles.vbs

I will modify deleteoldfiles.vbs so that you can choose to just move the files instead of deleting...

In short, give me a couple of more weeks and I'll have another script that will do what you need.

On another note, it looks like stattik has got an ffmpeg command line that will work for iPods...you can easily port the parameters over and have a profile that uses ffmpeg instead of mencoder.

[tpgbpvr]

I'm working on a couple of more scripts for my own use...

searcholdfiles.vbs - will search for files older than a set number of days
deleteoldfiles.vbs - will delete the files found from searcholdfiles.vbs

I will modify deleteoldfiles.vbs so that you can choose to just move the files instead of deleting...

In short, give me a couple of more weeks and I'll have another script that will do what you need.

On another note, it looks like stattik has got an ffmpeg command line that will work for iPods...you can easily port the parameters over and have a profile that uses ffmpeg instead of mencoder.

I figured that one could use ffmpeg instead of mencoder, but could not get it to work. If you have a second could you give me an example. My ffmpeg is in the default gbpvr plugin location.

I believe statik's ipod profile should work.

I tried this but obviously something was not correct:

Code:

PRESET=5
ENCODER="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe"
NUMPASS=1
PASS1OPTS=%SOURCE% -f mp4 -vcodec xvid -pass 1 -b 2300 -qmin 2 -qmax 9 -ab 160 -s 320X240 -r 29.97
PASS2OPTS=NONE
EXTENSION=mp4

any idea?

[jam_zhou]

there is not %DEST% for the output buffer.

Best thing to do is try it out manaully then change the parameters to variables.

Let me know if that works...it'll take me about a week or so to get enough time to really do it myself.

[jam_zhou]

OK,

try this:
PRESET=4
ENCODER="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe"
NUMPASS=1
PASS1OPTS=-y -i %SOURCE% -title ffmpeg_test_movie -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -s 320x240 -r 15 "******F:\temp\buffer.avi*****" -t 60
PASS2OPTS=NONE
EXTENSION=mp4

This successfully transcoded for me. It's kind of funny because the buffer file has to have the full path name - probably fixed if ffmpeg is in the same directory. Change it so that the directory is the same as where you have the mTranscode script. I'll fix things in the next release of the script to automatically figure out what directory it's installed into.

Remove "-t 60" when you've fully tested it it - this allows transcodes 60 seconds.

FYI, I took this from Subs video Ipod profile in config.xml.

This should get you started. Good luck. I don't have an Ipod so I can't tell you if it'll work. It does however play in zoom player - although gspot doesn't know what it is. When testing try it with the proper extension if things don't work right away.

[tpgbpvr]

OK,

try this:
PRESET=4
ENCODER="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe"
NUMPASS=1
PASS1OPTS=-y -i %SOURCE% -title ffmpeg_test_movie -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -s 320x240 -r 15 "******F:\temp\buffer.avi*****" -t 60
PASS2OPTS=NONE
EXTENSION=mp4

This successfully transcoded for me. It's kind of funny because the buffer file has to have the full path name - probably fixed if ffmpeg is in the same directory. Change it so that the directory is the same as where you have the mTranscode script. I'll fix things in the next release of the script to automatically figure out what directory it's installed into.

Remove "-t 60" when you've fully tested it it - this allows transcodes 60 seconds.

FYI, I took this from Subs video Ipod profile in config.xml.

This should get you started. Good luck. I don't have an Ipod so I can't tell you if it'll work. It does however play in zoom player - although gspot doesn't know what it is. When testing try it with the proper extension if things don't work right away.

THANKS JAM_ZHOU!

I have been using:

Code:

PRESET=7
ENCODER="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe"
NUMPASS=1
PASS1OPTS=-y -i %SOURCE% -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -g 0 -aspect 1:1 -bt 384 -ab 128 -ac 2 %DEST%
PASS2OPTS=NONE
EXTENSION=mp4

I may fine tune the ipod profile at some point I think.

Do you know how I could get the title from your mTranscode_0p0p3.vbs script, and use that as a variable to insert into your above -title?

when you have time

truely awesome Jam_Zhou.

[jam_zhou]

OK...new version out - IPOD profiles with title support as requested above (I don't have an Ipod so I can't completely vouch for the quality)

These aren't really zip files...just get rid of the zip extension (I can't get zip files to upload properly)
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Version 0.0.5 Jan 23, 2005 ---- EDIT OOOPS GUESS I'M A TIME TRAVELLER GOT TOO EXCITED

What's new:
IMPORTANT - a new config file is needed
- there are more config settings for the script
- buffer file can be set in the config file
- transcode.ini file can be set in the config file (two different transcode files are needed if you
want to run the script twice - e.g. when you want to transcode for later viewing and one for portable devices)
- fields in the profiles that are strings now require double quotes
- %DEST%-->"%DEST%"
- %SOURCE%-->"%SOURCE%"
- %TITLE%-->"%TITLE%"
- new dynamic field %TITLE% - the file name will be inserted in this field see the IPOD profiles for example
- IPOD profiles using FFMPEG - taken from Sub and stattiks script in the forums
- FFMPEG support for test mode (will transcode only 60s in test mode)


Bug Fixes
- script can now delete original files when transcoded file is moved to a new directory (USEEXTDIR=1/2)
- minor changes to the code for more robustness

[tpgbpvr]

Jam_Zhou can't wait to try the new script etc.. but can't open them. I have renamed the *.zip to the correct extensions but just a bunch of characters. No luck.

[jam_zhou]

I don't know why it didn't work for you, but here's an upload changed to a txt file. Did you try just deleting the .zip part, it worked for me. I'm in firefox.

[jam_zhou]

Here's the other two files...there's got to be a better way.

[tpgbpvr]

Here's the other two files...there's got to be a better way.

They work.

it is deleting my original file. were you able to keep the original and create a transcode to another directory? I was able to do so under the old mtranscode, but now it is deleting the original.


the quality is really poor. I will try some different specs for the ipod.