SageTV Transcoder

[joe123]

I am using SageTV 6.4 and using SageTV to convert my MPEG2 movies to MPEG4.

When I select a group (folder) of movies to convert to MPEG4, is SageTV process smart enough to not reconvert already converted movies?

I am asking because I converted 20 movies in a folder and later I told it to covert all movies again when I had new movies in the folder and it seems to be processing all of them no matter if they are MPEG2 or MPEG4.

Am I doing something wrong?

[tmiranda]

I've noticed the same thing. Sage converts everything even if it is already in the target format.

[joe123]

Is there a way to tell SageTV to covert 2 movies at a time? I have a 2 CPUs and right now, it only converts one at a time.

[Djc208]

Originally Posted by joe123

Is there a way to tell SageTV to covert 2 movies at a time? I have a 2 CPUs and right now, it only converts one at a time.

No, but the new transcoder in the beta is multithreaded, so it can take advantage of dual and quad core CPUs. Search the forum, but there's a setting that you can change in the properties file to permit multi-core transcoding. It won't do multiple shows but it should do each one that much faster.

[joe123]

How can we tell SageTV to skip already converted files and NOT try to convert them again?

[tmiranda]

You can't.

[joe123]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

You can't.

Is this a BUG? Why try to convert already converted files?