Utility: MediaShrink v3.0 - An HTPC focused encoder

[nethead]

Originally Posted by BKeadle

Well, I took a leap and just replace HandBrake 9.4 with HandBrake 9.5 and I see MediaShrink picks it up and uses it without incident - sa-weet!

Anyone aware of a reason *NOT* to do this?

Just started using MediaShrink, it was taking 4hours per 1hour on an i7(8 cores)

I tried the same replacement with HandBrake 9.6, it took 3hours per 1hour(Saving an HOUR!), but because the final HandBreak output uses a diff text string, so MediaShrink saw it as a failure

Looking forward to an update to MediaShrink, a great tool, but saving an hour per convert, would be nice.

[MattHelm]

Originally Posted by DVBtCi

Hi all,
I'm trying to convert a recording from HD-PVR (file is *.TS) to a MKV format.

When i play it with GOM or WinMediaPlayer, in action scenes, the moving object/portion of the image with have lines just as in a low quality movie.

In the conversion process, i do not want to reduce the size of the TS file but only convert it to an other format and MediaShrink does a great job. I always had problems using other tools to convert TS files.
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I too would like to do this. Anyone figure out how to get it to switch the containers without a re-encode? (reason: My Samsung TV doesn't like .TS containers!)

[phelme]

Originally Posted by nethead

Just started using MediaShrink, it was taking 4hours per 1hour on an i7(8 cores)

I tried the same replacement with HandBrake 9.6, it took 3hours per 1hour(Saving an HOUR!), but because the final HandBreak output uses a diff text string, so MediaShrink saw it as a failure

Looking forward to an update to MediaShrink, a great tool, but saving an hour per convert, would be nice.

Last I read EvilPenguin no longer has a working development PC, so couldn't fix it if he wanted to. Which is unfortunate because it seems like half my recordings that go through MediaShrink these days fail.

Maybe we need to take up a collection for EP.

[nyplayer]

You just need to make a small change to the profile.

MediaShrink\mediaEngineProfiles\encodingProfiles\Handbrake.profile
make this change

Encode CLI #1 =?>!(>prevExeLog=~Rip done!<)<:>/ERROR "Handbrake encode didn't finish properly"<?

to
Encode CLI #1 =?>!(>prevExeLog=~Encode done!<)<:>/ERROR "Handbrake encode didn't finish properly"<?


also if you want to use ffmpeg it is now ffmpeg4
/vcodec ffmpeg4

[Thron]

You should look at mcebuddy http://mcebuddy.com It does everything media shrink does, but its all gui and will read your existing EDL file. It can also be scheduled to shrink files.

[BKeadle]

I once had/saw a document that listed/explained the available metadata properties of recordings, such as $.GetFileDuration{}, but I can't seem to find it. Can someone point me in the right direction where this information is provided?

Thanks.

[BKeadle]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

You just need to make a small change to the profile.

MediaShrink\mediaEngineProfiles\encodingProfiles\Handbrake.profile
make this change

Encode CLI #1 =?>!(>prevExeLog=~Rip done!<)<:>/ERROR "Handbrake encode didn't finish properly"<?

to
Encode CLI #1 =?>!(>prevExeLog=~Encode done!<)<:>/ERROR "Handbrake encode didn't finish properly"<?


also if you want to use ffmpeg it is now ffmpeg4
/vcodec ffmpeg4

Thanks NYPLAYER for finding and sharing this!

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by BKeadle

I once had/saw a document that listed/explained the available metadata properties of recordings, such as $.GetFileDuration{}, but I can't seem to find it. Can someone point me in the right direction where this information is provided?

Thanks.

http://download.sage.tv/api/index.html

Look under AiriingApi
MediafileApi
ShowApi

[BKeadle]

Thank you very much. However, this doesn't look familiar for SageTV v6. Is it different?