(Old) MediaShrink - An HTPC focused encoder

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by DOS64K

Tried D&Ding and from command line, but it keeps hanging at this step (I've also included the log file). I'm able to process several other AnyDVD rips, just this particular one is giving me problems.

EP - Any clues?

No clue, I've never seen that command fail before.

[farfromuman]

Is there any way to specify priority without using the batch file? I ask this because I use Dirmon/SageMC/Mediashrink to auto compress and when using the batch file Dirmon will run too many instances of the mediashrink at the same time, using the exe works perfectly with the resource manager so for example I can set it to not run more than one instance of the compression at one time.

If the batch file is the only option is there something I can add to it that would maybe keep the batch running until the compression is done so Dirmon would see that it already started working on something?

[evilpenguin]

What's your batch file look like?

[farfromuman]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

What's your batch file look like?

I am using the batch file you posted some time ago:

@ECHO OFF
set DIRECTORY="C:\mediaScraper\"

:LOOP
IF (%1)==() GOTO NEXT
set COMMAND=%COMMAND% "%~f1"
shift
GOTO LOOP

:NEXT
cd /D "%DIRECTORY%"
start /BELOWNORMAL /WAIT /B mediaShrink.exe %COMMAND%

[DOS64K]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

No clue, I've never seen that command fail before.

Aha! A challenge worthy of futher exploration I'll test different AnyDVD settings to see if that's where the problem lies.

Oh, and thanks for the reply on the previous post!

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by farfromuman

I am using the batch file you posted some time ago:

@ECHO OFF
set DIRECTORY="C:\mediaScraper\"

:LOOP
IF (%1)==() GOTO NEXT
set COMMAND=%COMMAND% "%~f1"
shift
GOTO LOOP

:NEXT
cd /D "%DIRECTORY%"
start /BELOWNORMAL /WAIT /B mediaShrink.exe %COMMAND%

Add the /I switch.

start /I /BELOWNORMAL /WAIT /B mediaShrink.exe %COMMAND%

[nyplayer]

EP,

I noticed you do not keep the AC3 audio when doing MKV all the time. It appears that when doing clear Qam 528 x 480 it converts the AC3 to AAC. Is there a change I can make to pass thru the AC3. If I use handbrake by itself using the defaults it keeps the AC3.

[evilpenguin]

I only keep the original AC3 track if there are 5.1 channels, if its just 2 channels then I convert to AAC. If you want to override that you can add a modify this line in the Auto Encode profile...

Encode CLI #3     =?>!(>ac3||mp3||aac||aac51||copyAudio<)<:>?>ORIGINAL:audioCodec=~ac3&&ORIGINAL:audioChannels=~6<:>/copyAudio<=>/aac<?<?

to...

Encode CLI #3     =?>!(>ac3||mp3||aac||aac51||copyAudio<)<:>?>ORIGINAL:audioCodec=~ac3<:>/copyAudio<=>/aac<?<?

[farfromuman]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Add the /I switch.

start /I /BELOWNORMAL /WAIT /B mediaShrink.exe %COMMAND%

I added this switch but Dirmon still starts multiple instances of mediashrink, I might just schedule these to run in the middle of the night and not worry about the priority.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by farfromuman

I added this switch but Dirmon still starts multiple instances of mediashrink, I might just schedule these to run in the middle of the night and not worry about the priority.

One more thing you can try is to call MediaEngine.exe from your batch file directly...

start /I /BELOWNORMAL /WAIT /B mediaEngine.exe /defaultProfile autoEncode /findFileRegEx "avi|mpg|mkv|mp4|mpeg|VIDEO_TS|ts|ogm|divx|mpts|dvr-ms" %COMMAND%

That may work better because all MediaShrink.exe does is read in the default properties and then call MedianEngine.exe and that may be messing up Dirmon2.

(Fun Fact: MediaShrink.exe and MediaScraper.exe are 100% the same. All I do is change the name so that it reads from the correct ?????.defaults.txt file.)

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by farfromuman

I added this switch but Dirmon still starts multiple instances of mediashrink, I might just schedule these to run in the middle of the night and not worry about the priority.

Ok that was my fault you should not have the /B it causes the batch file to end prematurely. If you take the /B switch it will open a new window but it will wait for medaishrink to complete.

[perfessor101]

Hello,
I've been having some fun with Hauppauge MCE 500's recording with differing volumes ... (that and different stations with lower volumes to pump up the commercials)

I was curious is there anyway to add audio normalization to this?

Reclock works on my original recordings ... but it doesn't seem to want to work for re-encoded files.

Thanks for your time,
Bobby

[farfromuman]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Ok that was my fault you should not have the /B it causes the batch file to end prematurely. If you take the /B switch it will open a new window but it will wait for medaishrink to complete.

Thank you, it works as expected now.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

I only keep the original AC3 track if there are 5.1 channels, if its just 2 channels then I convert to AAC. If you want to override that you can add a modify this line in the Auto Encode profile...

Encode CLI #3     =?>!(>ac3||mp3||aac||aac51||copyAudio<)<:>?>ORIGINAL:audioCodec=~ac3&&ORIGINAL:audioChannels=~6<:>/copyAudio<=>/aac<?<?

to...

Encode CLI #3     =?>!(>ac3||mp3||aac||aac51||copyAudio<)<:>?>ORIGINAL:audioCodec=~ac3<:>/copyAudio<=>/aac<?<?

This had bad side effects it created my mp4's with AC3 and some players had no audio. I changed it back thx. MKV's play ok with ac3.

[mp328]

Hey EP,

just wondering is it possible to use a central working directory for all encodes instead of the recording folder?? now that i have an i7 processor i noticed the longest part of the encode is while it is creating the .workfolder which is basically copying the file from the same drive to the same drive and i always noticed it is faster to copy a file from one drive to another. especially when u have a show that is 20GB in size it takes a while to copy it

other than that the only thing missing is to intergrate this with sage like the old video tools

[nyplayer]

You can use a central work folder with beta2

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...3&postcount=73

[nyplayer]

EP,

I know you have been busy any chance of updating the CLI available switches section.
Thanks

[alon24]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

You can use a central work folder with beta2

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...3&postcount=73

What does this option do?

As I understand it:
1. copy the file to my local
2. create .workfolder on my local and compress on my local
3. copy the compressed file to the original local

is this correct?

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

EP,

I know you have been busy any chance of updating the CLI available switches section.
Thanks

Yeah, that's prolly a good idea. I had to dust off the tool to do some encoding over the weekend and even I had forgotten how to use it

Originally Posted by alon24

What does this option do?

As I understand it:
1. copy the file to my local
2. create .workfolder on my local and compress on my local
3. copy the compressed file to the original local

is this correct?

All it does is create the workfolder in the central folder you specify and use it for all the scratch work. It doesn't explicitly copy the original recording over before processing but 99% of the time after the first few tasks the the workfolder has all the videos it needs to never have to access the original one again.

[kfontenot]

Please help noob. Is it possible to use Mediashrink to convert a HDPVR recorded .ts file into an avi, mkv or even a mpg? I tried converting one file to an avi and received a message that there was no encoding profile available. What could I be missing? Please help. There are issues with audio getting out of sync when I tried using the Sage transcoder.