SageMC Video Tools 3.5 (Development Thread)

[Jetracers]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Do you have a log for the multiple audio track issue?

As for when its ready to autocompress, I'm pretty much in a holding pattern until Sage straightens up stuff on their end.

Well im dropping my videos on the Auto Encode.bat its doesnt make a compress log the only thing that is left over is a file with this name DesperateHousewives-TheresAlwaysaWoman-3988592-0.2_auto_encode.0.32.EncodePass_2.
That is 11Mb in size I will attempt to compress the same video again. see if i can catch a log this time.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by Jetracers

Well im dropping my videos on the Auto Encode.bat its doesnt make a compress log the only thing that is left over is a file with this name DesperateHousewives-TheresAlwaysaWoman-3988592-0.2_auto_encode.0.32.EncodePass_2.
That is 11Mb in size I will attempt to compress the same video again. see if i can catch a log this time.

Go ahead and open the autoEncode.bat file and add /saveLog to this line...

set COMMAND=
set DIRECTORY=C:\tv2pc
set MODE=
set PROFILE=Auto Encode
set SWITCHES=/saveLog

Sorry, its my bad for not setting that by default in the beta, i'll fix that tonight.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

I have not used the dev version of the program but 3.0k does not like long path names. At the end of the log it says it can not find the final video file. The path length to that file is 260 characters. I get errors in my encodes where the script references any file with a long path name. My guess is that video tools can not find the file because of the path length. I pointed this out to EP last week in the 3.0 thread and he said he make sure long path names work in the dev code.

Wow, good call, I didn't even catch that that was the issue in that log file

I'm working on a fix to that issue that should also take care of my Unicode problems as well.

[Jetracers]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Go ahead and open the autoEncode.bat file and add /saveLog to this line...

set COMMAND=
set DIRECTORY=C:\tv2pc
set MODE=
set PROFILE=Auto Encode
set SWITCHES=/saveLog

Sorry, its my bad for not setting that by default in the beta, i'll fix that tonight.

now i have /cutComm in that switch at the moment, how exactly do i add the /saveLog while keeping the cut commercial switch

[evilpenguin]

set COMMAND=
set DIRECTORY=C:\tv2pc
set MODE=
set PROFILE=Auto Encode
set SWITCHES=/cutComm /saveLog

[Jetracers]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Do you have a log for the multiple audio track issue?

Here's the log for the video with the spanish track (desperate housewives), also on other video the last 5 minutes doesn't have any audio and when doing the auto encode batch file it goes through it and at the end says it cant access
GaryUnmarried-GaryMeetstheGang-4070348-0.2_auto_encode.0.32.EncodePass_2 file being used by another process. This is not limited to just this video it does this on all dropped on the Auto Encode.bat

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by Jetracers

Here's the log for the video with the spanish track (desperate housewives), also on other video the last 5 minutes doesn't have any audio and when doing the auto encode batch file it goes through it and at the end says it cant access
GaryUnmarried-GaryMeetstheGang-4070348-0.2_auto_encode.0.32.EncodePass_2 file being used by another process. This is not limited to just this video it does this on all dropped on the Auto Encode.bat

Thanks for the logs!

As for the last part, I'm using a new method to capture my log files as well as print out data to the command window and for some reason, its not letting go of the file properly on the last pass of a mencoder encodes. I'm looking into it

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Wow, good call, I didn't even catch that that was the issue in that log file

I'm working on a fix to that issue that should also take care of my Unicode problems as well.

Great, Can't wait. Thanks.

[nyplayer]

EP,

I am experiencing the audio problem too. Videoredo appears to always pick the 2nd track when there is ac3.... so does mencoder. The way I got around it if there is ac3 audio... I run it through mencoder copying the video and audio with the switch "-aid 129" This selects the correct audio. I ran a test without that switch and all i kept getting was the mono ac3 which is the 2nd audio track.

General #0

Complete name                : C:\temp\KOINLocal6Earlyat6-9882810-0.mpg

Format                       : MPEG-2 Program

Format/Family                : MPEG-2

File size                    : 285 MiB

PlayTime                     : 10mn 8s

Bit rate                     : 3931 Kbps



Video #0

Codec                        : MPEG-2 Video

Codec/Family                 : MPEG-V

Codec profile                : Main@Main

Codec settings, Matrix       : Standard

PlayTime                     : 10mn 8s

Bit rate mode                : CBR

Bit rate                     : 3338 Kbps

Nominal bit rate             : 15 Mbps

Width                        : 528 pixels

Height                       : 480 pixels

Display Aspect ratio         : 4/3

Frame rate                   : 29.970 fps

Chroma                       : 4:2:0

Interlacement                : Top Field First



Audio #0

Codec                        : AC3

Bit rate mode                : CBR

Bit rate                     : 192 Kbps

Channel(s)                   : 2 channels

Channel positions            : L R

Sampling rate                : 48 KHz



Audio #1

Codec                        : AC3

Bit rate mode                : CBR

Bit rate                     : 128 Kbps

Channel(s)                   : 2 channels

Channel positions            : L R

Sampling rate                : 48 KHz

here is the doc on it
−aid <ID> (also see −alang)

Select audio channel (MPEG: 0−31, AVI/OGM: 1−99, ASF/RM: 0−127, VOB(AC-3): 128−159, VOB(LPCM): 160−191, MPEG-TS 17−8190). MPlayer prints the available audio IDs when run in verbose (−v) mode. When playing an MPEG-TS stream, MPlayer/MEncoder will use the first program (if present) with the chosen audio stream.

[Jetracers]

EP,
Any chance that you can show me how to edit the Cut Commercial Bat to cut the commercials without compression by dropping a VPrj file on it and then replace the original?

Also i need to change the VPrj file to an VPrjcut so i know that its already been done.
Thanks in advance,
Jet

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

I am experiencing the audio problem too. Videoredo appears to always pick the 2nd track when there is ac3.... so does mencoder. The way I got around it if there is ac3 audio... I run it through mencoder copying the video and audio with the switch "-aid 129" This selects the correct audio. I ran a test without that switch and all i kept getting was the mono ac3 which is the 2nd audio track.

Yeah, I've been avoiding dealing with multiple audio tracks for a while, hoping that the tools I use will be smart enough to pick the right track on their own. Sadly, it looks like that's not working consistently, so i'll put in some code that scans the audio tracks, picks the main one, and then explicitly tells the tools the proper one to use.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by Jetracers

EP,
Any chance that you can show me how to edit the Cut Commercial Bat to cut the commercials without compression by dropping a VPrj file on it and then replace the original?

Can you expand why you want to do it that way? I just drop the mpegs onto Cut Commericals.bat directly.

[Jetracers]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Can you expand why you want to do it that way? I just drop the mpegs onto Cut Commericals.bat directly.

yes, well I like the way you use VideoRedo to cut my commercials in this new plugin but since you were holding off on finishing the SageMC support till sagetv gets things fixed on their end and since there are a few bugs to work out on the current release I am currently cutting them by hand and letting your old plugin schedule and compress them after they are watched, but its getting hard to remember which ones ive cut. So i was hoping to get a batch file to cut the commercials after ive tweaked the vprj file, throw it back inplace, and then amend the extension to vprjcut so i know which ones are done.
Tell me if im not making sense. Thanks in advance,
Jet

[tchapin]

I'll download handbrake and install it and see what happens

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I downloaded the latest and gave it a try, but I'm not understanding the error. It looks like it really wants to use Handbrake, which I do not have installed. I'd like the output to be avi.

C:\Documents and Settings\x\Desktop\video\PlanetEarth-IceWorlds-606777-0.mpg.Aut
o Encode.compress.WorkFolder\PlanetEarth-IceWorlds-606777-0.2_auto_encode.0.40.h
andbrake_1.log - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process.
PlanetEarth-IceWorlds-606777-0.Auto Encode
compress
Error
! Final video, C:\Documents and Settings\x\Desktop\video\PlanetEarth-IceWorlds-6
06777-0.mpg.Auto Encode.compress.WorkFolder\PlanetEarth-IceWorlds-606777-0.2_aut
o_encode.0.40.handbrake_1.main.mkv, doesn't exist at script/tv2pc.pl line 2505.
Press any key to continue . . .

[Jetracers]

EP,
Where do I add the switch to tell the Perl2dvd or Auto Encode.bat to output inplace. Also if i drop more than 1 video onto the perl2dvd executable or onto the .bat file will it queue them and if so what is the maximum amount of videos that i can drop at once. Thanks in advance,
Jet

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by tchapin

I downloaded the latest and gave it a try, but I'm not understanding the error. It looks like it really wants to use Handbrake, which I do not have installed. I'd like the output to be avi.

HandbrakeCLI.exe should be included in the tv2pcbin folder.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by Jetracers

Where do I add the switch to tell the Perl2dvd or Auto Encode.bat to output inplace.

Just add /inPlace next to the rest of the switches in the batch file.

Originally Posted by Jetracers

Also if i drop more than 1 video onto the perl2dvd executable or onto the .bat file will it queue them and if so what is the maximum amount of videos that i can drop at once.

You can drag up to 9 onto the batch file and only 1 onto the .exe. Also, bear in mind that the dragging onto the exe will always do an standard AutoEncode next to the original video.

Also, sorry for the slow development, my home office is completely filled with boxes, old furniture, and misc. junk so its basically unusable right now.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by Jetracers

yes, well I like the way you use VideoRedo to cut my commercials in this new plugin but since you were holding off on finishing the SageMC support till sagetv gets things fixed on their end and since there are a few bugs to work out on the current release I am currently cutting them by hand and letting your old plugin schedule and compress them after they are watched, but its getting hard to remember which ones ive cut. So i was hoping to get a batch file to cut the commercials after ive tweaked the vprj file, throw it back inplace, and then amend the extension to vprjcut so i know which ones are done.
Tell me if im not making sense. Thanks in advance,
Jet

Ok, I get where you're coming from. Let me think about this for a little bit and see what i'd have to do to enable that.

[Jetracers]

EP,
Any update or insight on why my videos have no audio the last 5-10min of a encoding? Thanks in advance.
Jet

[evilpenguin]

My working theory right now is that something is going wrong in VideoRedo and its not copying over the audio after one of the cuts. You could even verify this by seeing if one of your commercial segments is exactly 2 minutes and 13 seconds long.

Also, are you using the latest VRD TV Suite?