(Old) MediaShrink - An HTPC focused encoder

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Thanks razr that worked

np

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

EP,

There appears to be a problem with the scaling if I specify "/xRes" "480" the -l always defaults to 448 (/yres). This causes distortion and an elongated video ... in my case the video was 4:3 so the -l should be 352.

If i remove all mention in the snips of yres then handbrake handles the scaling properly.

snip of code with /res in snips
--crop 12:20:15:17 -l 448 -w 480

Yikes, that's ugly. Easy fix,

    Encode CLI #8     =?>!isDVD&&!noAutoCrop&&!xRes&&!yRes<:>/yres ?>ORIGINAL:43in169<:>540<=>ORIGINAL:cropY>720<:>720<=>%%ORIGINAL:cropY%%<?<?
    Encoder #8        =/setOptions /noOverwrite

This line was intended for only if you didn't specify you're own resolution settings, so I've fixed it so it wouldn't get in the way anymore. I'll fix the audio issue you were seeing also and update the download tonight

Here's the full profile, just copy and paste it in and it'll fix the problem.

# Profile: Auto Encode
#
# Automagically encode content
#
# HQ HDTV  - /container mkv /vcodec x264 /vbitrate 2500 /acodec ac3       /addSubtitles /xRes 720
# MQ HDTV  - /container mkv /vcodec x264 /vbitrate 2000 /acodec ac3       /addSubtitles /xRes 688
# LQ HDTV  - /container mkv /vcodec x264 /vbitrate 1500 /acodec faac      /addSubtitles /xRes 540
# 4:3 HDTV - /container mkv /vcodec x264 /vbitrate 1500 /acodec faac      /addSubtitles /xRes 540 /decomb
# 4:3 SDTV - /container mkv /vcodec x264 /vbitrate 1500 /acodec faac      /addSubtitles /xRes 540 /decomb
# DVD      - /container mkv /vcodex x264 /vbitrate 2000 /acodec (ac3|dts) /addSubtitles           /decomb

    Profile           =Auto Encode
    Encode CLI #1     =ErrorCheck
    Encoder #1        =/insertFunction

    Encode CLI #2     =/container mkv /vcodec x264 /autoCrop /vProfile MQ
    Encoder #2        =/setOptions /noOverwrite

    Encode CLI #3     =/vbitrate ?>%%SNIP:HDTVCheck%%<:>2000<=>isDVD<:>1800<=>1500<?
    Encoder #3        =/setOptions /noOverwrite

    Encode CLI #4     =/acodec ?>ORIGINAL:audioCodec=~(ac3|dts)&&ORIGINAL:audioChannels=~6&&!ORIGINAL:43in169<:>passthrough<=>faac<? /abitrate 160
    Encoder #4        =/setOptions /noOverwrite

    Encode CLI #5     =?>isDVD<:>/decomb /IVTC %cutComm<?
    Encoder #5        =/setOptions /noOverwrite

    Encode CLI #6     =?>ORIGINAL:percentFilm>25&&%%SNIP:HDTVCheck%%<:>/IVTC<?
    Encoder #6        =/setOptions /noOverwrite

    Encode CLI #7     =?>ORIGINAL:videoCodec=~mpeg2video&&!%%SNIP:HDTVCheck%%<:>/decomb<?
    Encoder #7        =/setOptions /noOverwrite

    Encode CLI #8     =?>!isDVD&&!noAutoCrop&&!xRes&&!yRes<:>/yres ?>ORIGINAL:43in169<:>540<=>ORIGINAL:cropY>720<:>720<=>%%ORIGINAL:cropY%%<?<?
    Encoder #8        =/setOptions /noOverwrite

    Encode CLI #9     =?>%%SNIP:SubtitleSuccess%%&&%%container%%=~(mkv|mp4)<:>/addSubtitleTrack<?
    Encoder #9        =/setOptions /noOverwrite

    Encode CLI #10    =Handbrake
    Encoder #10       =/branch

[woribhabor]

despite updating I get the same end result when trying to mediashrink any of my DVD's using SJQ.

Log attached.

[ChaOConnor]

Question: Will MS work w/ a BluRay rip? Just curious... just ordered my first BluRay drive... I'm excited!!!!

[evilpenguin]

It doesn't, but I highly recommend ClownBD for that. Its *almost* as easy as mediaShrink

[Fuzzy]

yeah, really not much need to recompress blu-ray... the whole point of the bluray is the quality, and it is already in very well done H.264 compression... no sense in recompressing it, as you will definately take a considerable quality hit. Something like ClownBD or MakeMKV would be much more suited to single-videoing the blu-ray rips.

[saltlyck2]

is there any way to use mediashrink to merge mkv files? Here's what I'm trying to do. I have a video camera that once dumped into a file on my media server it's a bunch of files. File1.avi, file2.avi, file3.avi. Mediashrink is used to convert them to .mkv individually but I'd like to merge them all into one file too.

[Fuzzy]

I dont' think mediashrink is set up to do this by itself. however, You should be able to use MKVMerge (part of mkvtoolnix) to do so. I beleive you can choose append mode when adding source files. This would be a quick process, as MKV is actually very well suited to doing this type of thing.

[saltlyck2]

Yeah I've been looking at mkvmerge today. I cannot quite figure out how to set up dirmon to do all this automatically. For instance if 3 files show up in a folder, they are merged. The command to do this in mkvmerge would be

mkvmerge -o output.mkv file1.mkv +file2.mkv +file3.mkv

Not an easy task as far as what dirmon should look for and how to create and run the command.

Anyone?

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by saltlyck2

Yeah I've been looking at mkvmerge today. I cannot quite figure out how to set up dirmon to do all this automatically. For instance if 3 files show up in a folder, they are merged. The command to do this in mkvmerge would be

mkvmerge -o output.mkv file1.mkv +file2.mkv +file3.mkv

Not an easy task as far as what dirmon should look for and how to create and run the command.

Anyone?

Doing it automatically via dirmon would be a bit difficult, but I can certainly help you speed it up. Here's a batch file that you can drag/drop all the files you want combined. I haven't tested it yet, so let me know if you have any problems...

@echo OFF
set MKVMERGEDIRECTORY=C:\WHATEVER\THE\PATH\TO\MKVMERGE\IS

FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET mm=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET dd=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=3* DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET yyyy=%%B
set date=%mm%-%dd%-%yyyy%.%random%

:LOOP
IF (%1)==() GOTO MKVMERGE
set FILEPATH=%~p1
set FILES=%FILES% "%~f1"
shift
GOTO LOOP

:MKVMERGE
cd /D "%MKVMERGEDIRECTORY%"
mkvmerge.exe -o "%FILEPATH%/combined.%date%.mkv" %FILES%

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

EP,

There appears to be a problem with the scaling if I specify "/xRes" "480" the -l always defaults to 448 (/yres). This causes distortion and an elongated video ... in my case the video was 4:3 so the -l should be 352.

If i remove all mention in the snips of yres then handbrake handles the scaling properly.

snip of code with /res in snips
--crop 12:20:15:17 -l 448 -w 480

Updated the download to fix this very bad bug.

DOWNLOAD

The other audio issue nyplayer found turned out to be more difficult to handle than i anticipated. But its not a show stopper as it should should only affect people in rare cases when they

a) have two audio tracks
b) ffmpeg and handbrake report their order differently

I'll have to tackle that when I have some more free time (and a home office ).

[saltlyck2]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Doing it automatically via dirmon would be a bit difficult, but I can certainly help you speed it up. Here's a batch file that you can drag/drop all the files you want combined. I haven't tested it yet, so let me know if you have any problems...

@echo OFF
set MKVMERGEDIRECTORY=C:\WHATEVER\THE\PATH\TO\MKVMERGE\IS

FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET mm=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET dd=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=3* DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET yyyy=%%B
set date=%mm%-%dd%-%yyyy%.%random%

:LOOP
IF (%1)==() GOTO MKVMERGE
set FILEPATH=%~p1
set FILES=%FILES% "%~f1"
shift
GOTO LOOP

:MKVMERGE
cd /D "%MKVMERGEDIRECTORY%"
mkvmerge.exe -o "%FILEPATH%/combined.%date%.mkv" %FILES%

Wow that was fast. Thanks. Needed some modifications to work on my system but worked. Drag, Drop, Done. Now how can I modify this to take input from a .txt file? My plan is to setup my mediashrink batch file to append the directory and filename to a .txt (or probably some random filename like .zxx) file. Dirmon will look for .zxx files nightly and run your batch using that file as input. Then delete the .zxx.

[evilpenguin]

Check out this link, should get you going...

http://www.computing.net/answers/pro...txt/16834.html

[ohpleaseno]

I installed SJQ and media shrink on a new client machine. SJQ finds the files and sends them to mediashrink just fine. It fails to process the file and spits out this log.

Fri Mar 26 18:17:37 EDT 2010: Starting task with priority 1/1/10
Executing command line: c:/progs/shrink/mediaShrink.exe "\\WHS\SageTV\ThisOldHouse-NewtonCentreProject-1499831-0.mpg" /inPlace /batch /vprofile HQ /vbitrate 2500 /onepass
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

 Executing command: "c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngine.exe"  /saveLog /defaultProfile autoEncode /findFileRegEx "avi|mpg|mkv|mp4|mpeg|VIDEO_TS|ts|ogm|divx|mpts|dvr-ms" /batch /mediaShrink fixBug "\\WHS\SageTV\ThisOldHouse-NewtonCentreProject-1499831-0.mpg" "/inPlace" "/batch" "/vprofile" "HQ" "/vbitrate" "2500" "/onepass"
 Welcome to mediaEngine v3.0 (Built on 16:45:38.30 03-16-2010 )
 Staring Proccesing at  
  + Executable   : c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngine.exe
  + EXE path     : c:\progs\shrink
 Welcome to mediaEngine v3.0 (Built on 16:45:38.30 03-16-2010 )
 Staring Proccesing at  
  + Executable   : c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngine.exe
  + EXE path     : c:\progs\shrink
  + Parsing switches
    - optionsString: "/saveLog" "/defaultProfile" "autoEncode" "/findFileRegEx" "avi|mpg|mkv|mp4|mpeg|VIDEO_TS|ts|ogm|divx|mpts|dvr-ms" "/batch" "/mediaShrink" "fixBug" "\\WHS\SageTV\ThisOldHouse-NewtonCentreProject-1499831-0.mpg" "/inPlace" "/batch" "/vprofile" "HQ" "/vbitrate" "2500" "/onepass" 
        - Replacing quote0: /saveLog
        - Replacing quote1: /defaultProfile
        - Replacing quote2: autoEncode
        - Replacing quote3: /findFileRegEx
        - Replacing quote4: avi|mpg|mkv|mp4|mpeg|VIDEO_TS|ts|ogm|divx|mpts|dvr-ms
        - Replacing quote5: /batch
        - Replacing quote6: /mediaShrink
        - Replacing quote7: fixBug
        - Replacing quote8: \\WHS\SageTV\ThisOldHouse-NewtonCentreProject-1499831-0.mpg
        - Replacing quote9: /inPlace
        - Replacing quote10: /batch
        - Replacing quote11: /vprofile
        - Replacing quote12: HQ
        - Replacing quote13: /vbitrate
        - Replacing quote14: 2500
        - Replacing quote15: /onepass
    - Adding to to options Hash
      + Key: saveLog ()
    - Adding to to options Hash
      + Key: defaultProfile ()
      + Value: autoEncode
    - Adding to to options Hash
      + Key: findFileRegEx ()
      + Value: avi|mpg|mkv|mp4|mpeg|VIDEO_TS|ts|ogm|divx|mpts|dvr-ms
    - Adding to to options Hash
      + Key: batch ()
    - Adding to to options Hash
      + Key: mediaShrink ()
      + Value: fixBug
      ! couldn't understand (\\WHS\SageTV\ThisOldHouse-NewtonCentreProject-1499831-0.mpg), throwing it away
    - Adding to to options Hash
      + Key: inPlace ()
    - Adding to to options Hash
      + Key: batch ()
    - Adding to to options Hash
      + Key: vprofile ()
      + Value: HQ
    - Adding to to options Hash
      + Key: vbitrate ()
      + Value: 2500
    - Adding to to options Hash
      + Key: onepass ()
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineProfiles (profile|func|snip|output|scrape)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineProfiles\encodingProfiles (profile|func|snip|output|scrape)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineProfiles\scrapingProfiles (profile|func|snip|output|scrape)
  + Seraching for avaialble binaries
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineProfiles (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineProfiles\encodingProfiles (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineProfiles\scrapingProfiles (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\Comskip (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\Curl (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\legal stuff (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\legal stuff\ffmpeg (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\legal stuff\ffmpeg\compiling (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\legal stuff\libAften (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\legal stuff\libFlac (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\legal stuff\libMatrix (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\legal stuff\libSsrc (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\legal stuff\libSsrc\Sources (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\legal stuff\r8brain (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\plugins (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\ffmpeg (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\ffmpeg\FFmpeg-svn-16596 (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\ffmpeg\FFmpeg-svn-16596\docs (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\HandBrake 9.4 (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\HandBrake 9.4\doc (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\data (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\doc (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\doc\images (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\examples (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\locale (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\locale\de (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\locale\de\LC_MESSAGES (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\locale\ja (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\locale\ja\LC_MESSAGES (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\locale\zh_CN (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\locale\zh_CN\LC_MESSAGES (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\locale\zh_TW (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\locale\zh_TW\LC_MESSAGES (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mp4box (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311 (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311\codecs (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311\docs (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311\fonts (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311\fonts\conf.avail (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311\fonts\conf.d (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311\mplayer (exe)
    - Scanning Directory: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\tsMuxeR (exe)
      + ccextractorwin.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\ccextractorwin.exe
      + edl2vprj.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\edl2vprj.exe
      + mp4creator.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mp4creator.exe
      + mtee.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mtee.exe
      + touch.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\touch.exe
      + wget.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\wget.exe
      + comskip.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\Comskip\comskip.exe
      + curl.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\Curl\curl.exe
      + eac3to.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\eac3to\eac3to.exe
      + ffmpeg.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe
      + ffmpeg_SVN.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\ffmpeg\FFmpeg-svn-16596\ffmpeg_SVN.exe
      + HandBrakeCLI.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\HandBrake 9.4\HandBrakeCLI.exe
      + mkvextract.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\mkvextract.exe
      + mkvinfo.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\mkvinfo.exe
      + mkvmerge.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe
      + mkvpropedit.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\mkvpropedit.exe
      + mmg.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mkvtoolnix\mmg.exe
      + MP4Box.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\mp4box\MP4Box.exe
      + mencoder.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311\mencoder.exe
      + mplayer.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311\mplayer.exe
      + vfw2menc.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311\vfw2menc.exe
      + tsMuxeR.exe	: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\tsMuxeR\tsMuxeR.exe
  + Seraching for input files (avi|mpg|mkv|mp4|mpeg|VIDEO_TS|ts|ogm|divx|mpts|dvr-ms)
------------ Processing ----------------
  + Adding per run options: ()()
    + Parsing switches
      - optionsString: 
  + Processing: 
  ! No input file found
    - Making Log File: c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngine.log
  + Looking for profile: 
Couldn't find encode profile: Exiting Code: (1)
Exiting in 5 seconds...

Is this a MS or SJQ issue?

[evilpenguin]

Definetely a MS bug, some UNC issues must have cropped up

! couldn't understand (\\WHS\SageTV\ThisOldHouse-NewtonCentreProject-1499831-0.mpg), throwing it away

Edit: Well, maybe not, can you drag and drop run the same file outside of SJQ? If so, then you will either need to run SJQ in user mode (just launch the batch file rather than the service) or modify the service to launch with admin privileges by using your user credentials.

[ohpleaseno]

Also, is the logic still there to spit out tv shows from a dvd into individual mkvs?

[ohpleaseno]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Definetely a MS bug, some UNC issues must have cropped up

! couldn't understand (\\WHS\SageTV\ThisOldHouse-NewtonCentreProject-1499831-0.mpg), throwing it away

Edit: Well, maybe not, can you drag and drop run the same file outside of SJQ? If so, then you will either need to run SJQ in user mode (just launch the batch file rather than the service) or modify the service to launch with admin privileges by using your user credentials.

it's running in drag and drop mode from the client. I get a bunch of the unc path errors in the command line window.

I'll start with changing the service to my login and seeing if that works first.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by ohpleaseno

Also, is the logic still there to spit out tv shows from a dvd into individual mkvs?

Yep.

[ohpleaseno]

changing the service to my login worked. it's cooking now.

Are there certain DVD structures that won't work to separate TV shows because I just dragged and dropped Disc one of The Ben Stiller Show and it gave me one MKV in the end.

[ohpleaseno]

Spoke too soon. It went through all the programs up to handbrake and then quit. It wouldn't even kick it to a workfolder before, this time it got half way and died. How do I enable logging?