(Old) MediaShrink - An HTPC focused encoder

[ohpleaseno]

Is there a way to tell MediaShrink to use the directory that is one up from the VIDEO_TS folder as the filename for the newly encoded file?

i.e. \\server\video\Flash of Genius\VIDEO_TS ---> \\server\video\Flash of Genius\Flash of Genius.mkv

[nyplayer]

EP,

I noticed that even if I tell it to encode the audio to aac if the input file is HD it will copy over the ac3 is there a way to force it to encode the audio?

[taylork]

Hey EP, any word on an update?

Thanks

[ohpleaseno]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

You can run it through VideoRedo QuickStream Fix to solve that problem, I run into it occasionally as well.

Does anyone know how to call Videoredo from the command line to do a Quick Stream Fix?

Almost all of my recorded TV files are running into the "No Audio or Video" problem when called by SJQ. Just for good measure, I'm posting the log of one of the "NAOV" errors below. :sad trombone:

Tue Apr 06 21:35:13 EDT 2010: Starting task with priority 1/1/10
Executing command line: c:/progs/shrink/mediaShrink.bat "\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg"
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
The system cannot find the batch label specified - EOF

 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\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg" "/inPlace" "/batch" "/vprofile" "HQ" "/vbitrate" "2500" "/twopass"
 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\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg" "/inPlace" "/batch" "/vprofile" "HQ" "/vbitrate" "2500" "/twopass" 
        - 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\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg
        - Replacing quote9: /inPlace
        - Replacing quote10: /batch
        - Replacing quote11: /vprofile
        - Replacing quote12: HQ
        - Replacing quote13: /vbitrate
        - Replacing quote14: 2500
        - Replacing quote15: /twopass
    - 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
    - Adding Inputfile: \\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg
    - 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: twopass ()
    - 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)
    - Found File: (\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg)
------------ Processing ----------------
  + Adding per run options: (/inputFile "\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg" /profile autoEncode)(/inputFile "\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg" /profile autoEncode)
    + Parsing switches
      - optionsString: /inputFile "\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg" /profile autoEncode
      - Adding to to options Hash
        + Key: inputFile ()
        + Value: \\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg
      - Adding to to options Hash
        + Key: profile ()
        + Value: autoEncode
  + Processing: inputFile = FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0
  + Looking for profile: autoEncode
    - Found "autoencode"
  - Getting Video Info: (\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg)(856928)
      + FFmpeg version SVN-r25, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
      +   configuration: --target-os=mingw32 --prefix=/home/daved/Development/SageTV/Projects/buildwin/stage --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-gpl --disable-decoder=aac --disable-encoder=aac --disable-demuxer=ea --disable-devices --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-pthreads --disable-debug --enable-memalign-hack --extra-cflags=-fno-common -march=i686 -mtune=i686 -DWIN32 -I/home/daved/Development/SageTV/Projects/buildwin/stage/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/daved/Development/SageTV/Projects/buildwin/stage/lib --enable-cross-compile --cross-prefix=i686-pc-mingw32-
      +   libavutil     50. 2. 0 / 50. 2. 0
      +   libavcodec    52.22. 3 / 52.22. 3
      +   libavformat   52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
      +   libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
      +   libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
      +   built on Sep  1 2009 09:13:24, gcc: 4.2.4
      + 
      + Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 119.88 (120000/1001) -> 59.94 (120000/2002)
      + Input #0, mpeg, from '\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg':
      +   Duration: 00:17:44.32, start: 0.723978, bitrate: 6595 kb/s
      +     Stream #0.0[0x1e0], 1/90000: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 1280x720, 1001/120000, AR: 16:9, progressive, 19392 kb/s, 59.94 fps
      +     Stream #0.1[0x81], 1/90000: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 384 kb/s
      + At least one output file must be specified
        - Setting Primary Audio Track to 1
          + Handbrake Settings       : -a 1 -E faac -B auto
          + Handbrake Settings (ALL) : -a 1 -E faac -B auto
  - Getting Handbrake info: "c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\HandBrake 9.4\HandBrakeCLI.exe" -i "//WHS/SageTV/FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg" -t 0 2>&1 (\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.workFolder\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.HandbrakeInfo)
      + libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
      + libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
      + libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
      + libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
      + libdvdnav: vm: failed to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
      + [21:35:14] dvd: not a dvd - trying as a stream/file instead
      + [21:35:14] file is MPEG DVD Program Stream
      + [21:35:16] add_audio_to_title: added AC3 audio stream 0x81bd
      + [21:35:17] scan: decoding previews for title 1
      + [21:35:17] scan: audio 0x81bd: AC-3, rate=48000Hz, bitrate=384000 Unknown (AC3) (2.0 ch)
      + Scanning title 1 of 1...
      + Scanning title 1 of 1...
      + Scanning title 1 of 1...
      + Scanning title 1 of 1...
      + [21:35:18] scan: 10 previews, 1280x720, 59.940 fps, autocrop = 0/0/160/164, aspect 16:9, PAR 1:1
      + [21:35:18] scan: title (0) job->width:960, job->height:720
      + [21:35:18] libhb: scan thread found 1 valid title(s)
      + + title 1:
      +   + vts 0, ttn 0, cells 0->0 (0 blocks)
      +   + angle(s) 0
      +   + duration: 00:17:18
      +   + size: 1280x720, pixel aspect: 1/1, display aspect: 1.78, 59.940 fps
      +   + autocrop: 0/0/160/164
      +   + chapters:
      +     + 1: cells 0->0, 0 blocks, duration 00:17:18
      +   + audio tracks:
      +     + 1, Unknown (AC3) (2.0 ch) (iso639-2: und), 48000Hz, 384000bps
      +   + subtitle tracks:
      +     + 1, Closed Captions (iso639-2: und) (Text)
      + HandBrake has exited.
    - Detecting Advanced Video Properties (this may take a few minutes...):
      + Detected 4:3 in 16:9 (1280 -> 944)
      + Crop settings look ok to me!
        - cropX/xRes (0.7375)   > .72
        - cropY/yRes(0.955555555555556)   > .72
        - 1.25 < cropX/cropY (1.37209302325581)  < 1.8
        - abs(TopCrop - BottomCrop) (16 -  16)  < 30
        - abs(RightCrop - LeftCrop) (159 - 177) < 30
        - Cropped Res Divisable by 16: 944 x 688 
      + telecine : 15% (108 / 717)
      + embeddedCC : 345
      + Analyzing Duration: 00:01:12
######## Starting Processing
    - Remaining Commands (0): (/insertFunction)
      + Command : /insertFunction
    - Remaining Commands (9): (/insertFunction)
      + Command : /insertFunction
    - Remaining Commands (8): (/setOptions /noOverwrite)
      + Command : /setOptions /noOverwrite
        + Parsing switches
          - optionsString: /container mkv /vcodec x264 /autoCrop /vProfile MQ
            + No Overwritting!
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: container ()
            + Value: mkv
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: vcodec ()
            + Value: x264
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: autoCrop ()
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: vProfile (HQ)
              ! Already Exists, skipping: (/vProfile MQ)
    - Remaining Commands (7): (/setOptions /noOverwrite)
      + Command : /setOptions /noOverwrite
        + Parsing switches
          - optionsString: /vbitrate 1500
            + No Overwritting!
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: vbitrate (2500)
              ! Already Exists, skipping: (/vbitrate 1500)
    - Remaining Commands (6): (/setOptions /noOverwrite)
      + Command : /setOptions /noOverwrite
        + Parsing switches
          - optionsString: /acodec faac /abitrate 160
            + No Overwritting!
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: acodec ()
            + Value: faac
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: abitrate ()
            + Value: 160
    - Remaining Commands (5): (/setOptions /noOverwrite)
      + Command : /setOptions /noOverwrite
      + Command Empty, Skipping: ""
    - Remaining Commands (4): (/setOptions /noOverwrite)
      + Command : /setOptions /noOverwrite
      + Command Empty, Skipping: ""
    - Remaining Commands (3): (/setOptions /noOverwrite)
      + Command : /setOptions /noOverwrite
        + Parsing switches
          - optionsString: /decomb
            + No Overwritting!
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: decomb ()
    - Remaining Commands (2): (/setOptions /noOverwrite)
      + Command : /setOptions /noOverwrite
        + Parsing switches
          - optionsString: /yres /yres 540
            + No Overwritting!
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: yres ()
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: yres ()
              ! Already Exists, skipping: (/yres 540)
    - Remaining Commands (1): (/setOptions /noOverwrite)
      + Command : /setOptions /noOverwrite
        + Parsing switches
          - optionsString: /addSubtitleTrack
            + No Overwritting!
          - Adding to to options Hash
            + Key: addSubtitleTrack ()
    - Remaining Commands (0): (/branch)
      + Command : /branch
    - Remaining Commands (4): (/insertFunction)
      + Command : /insertFunction
      + Command Empty, Skipping: ""
    - Remaining Commands (3): (/insertFunction)
      + Command : /insertFunction
      + Command Empty, Skipping: ""
    - Remaining Commands (2): (/exe HandBrakeCLI.exe)
      + Command : /exe HandBrakeCLI.exe
        - Executing command: "c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\HandBrake 9.4\HandBrakeCLI.exe" -v -i "//WHS/SageTV/FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.mpg" -o "//WHS/SageTV/FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.workFolder/FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.scratch.0.14.MAIN.mkv"  --subtitle 1, -e x264 -T -x b-adapt=2:rc-lookahead=50 -b 2500  -a 1 -E faac -B auto --decomb  -2  --crop 16:16:159:177 -l    > "\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.workFolder\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.scratch.0.14.HandBrakeCLI.log" 2>&1
          + ------ Last 30 lines of log -------
          +  c:\progs\shrink\mediaEngineBins\HandBrake 9.4\HandBrakeCLI.exe: option requires an argument -- l
          +  unknown option ((null))
        - Getting Video Info: (\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.workFolder\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.scratch.0.14.MAIN.mkv)(0)
            + FFmpeg version SVN-r25, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
            +   configuration: --target-os=mingw32 --prefix=/home/daved/Development/SageTV/Projects/buildwin/stage --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-gpl --disable-decoder=aac --disable-encoder=aac --disable-demuxer=ea --disable-devices --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-pthreads --disable-debug --enable-memalign-hack --extra-cflags=-fno-common -march=i686 -mtune=i686 -DWIN32 -I/home/daved/Development/SageTV/Projects/buildwin/stage/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/daved/Development/SageTV/Projects/buildwin/stage/lib --enable-cross-compile --cross-prefix=i686-pc-mingw32-
            +   libavutil     50. 2. 0 / 50. 2. 0
            +   libavcodec    52.22. 3 / 52.22. 3
            +   libavformat   52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
            +   libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
            +   libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
            +   built on Sep  1 2009 09:13:24, gcc: 4.2.4
            + \\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.workFolder\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.scratch.0.14.MAIN.mkv: no such file or directory
    - Remaining Commands (1): (/insertFunction)
      + Command : /insertFunction
      + Command Empty, Skipping: ""
    - Remaining Commands (0): (/insertFunction)
      + Command : /insertFunction
    - Remaining Commands (7): (/setOptions)
      + Command : /setOptions
        + Parsing switches
          - optionsString: /ERROR "No Audio or Video"
    ! Error reported from profile file: No Audio or Video
    ! Moving onto next file
  + Total Time : 00:01:17
  + Deleting temp files (\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.workFolder)
    - Deleting File: \\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.workFolder
      + Deleting Folder: rmdir /S /Q "\\WHS\SageTV\FetchWithRuffRuffman-IllRuffandIllRuffandIllBlowYourHouseDown-1500203-0.workFolder"
Exiting Code: (1)
Exiting in 5 seconds...

[mp328]

i seem to be having issues with shows over 2hrs with the 3.0b version. for example here monday night raw has been encoding all night over and over again never completing the conversion.

i have the log file but im not sure if it complete or not.

another file also didnt go thru (global...), even though both files will convert without issues in the v2.0

edit - i have to move the file out of the recordings folder and onto the network otherwise it will try and convert the file for a week constantly

added 2 more log file that seem to complete after who knows how many hourse. maybe a good idea to add time stamps infront of each line???

[taylork]

Originally Posted by taylork

Sent this via PM to evilpenguin but probably should have posted here in case other folks are experiencing these same issues. That said, I've been testing a batch of 5 minute clips on the latest version of mediaShrink (3b). Attached log output is for a 4 clip run -- these 4 clips suffered issues when part of a larger test, so I pulled them out and tested again and the errors were repeated.

Clip: Hitman -- HD recording made on an HDHomeRun tuner. Original recording has 2 audio channels, 1 in English the other in Spanish.
Issue: No audio at all in the encoded file. CC is correctly included.

Clip: GeneSimmons -- SD recording made on an HDHomeRun tuner.
Issue: No CC text in the encoded file. Audio is ok.

Clip: Biography -- SD recording made on an HDHomeRun tuner.
Issue: No CC text in the encoded file. Audio is ok.

Clip: TheLongestNight -- SD recording made on an HDHomeRun tuner.
Issue: No CC text in the encoded file. Audio is ok.

Was hoping you could provide some guidance as to what I can do to fix these issues.

Many thanks

I'm sure evilpenguin is working on things as best as he can... but has anyone else had any luck at properly shrinking recordings that share the characteristics of the recordings listed above?

I am quickly running out of space and need to get some items compressed or deleted (and would prefer to compress).

Thanks!

[evilpenguin]

I'm gonna be too busy in the next few weeks to do any Sage development, in the meantime, try out the older version, it should work just find on all of those videos.

http://upnp2podcast.googlecode.com/f...rink_v2_0c.exe

Older Instructions

[taylork]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

I'm gonna be too busy in the next few weeks to do any Sage development, in the meantime, try out the older version, it should work just find on all of those videos.

http://upnp2podcast.googlecode.com/f...rink_v2_0c.exe

Older Instructions

Thanks ep.

Quick couple of questions... (I'm not very computer literate, so please pardon my ignorance) but when using v2.0c, I want to save everything in the mp4 format. As such, I change the Auto Encode.profile file from this line:

Encode CLI #3     =?>!(>mkv||avi||mp4<)<:>/mkv<?

to this:

Encode CLI #3     =?>!(>mkv||avi||mp4<)<:>/mp4<?

Which then outputs in the mp4 format. But the problem I'm having is that the Closed Captioned text is included when I shrink to the mkv format... but this text isn't included in the mp4 format.

Is there something I'm doing (or not-doing) that is causing mediaShrink to not include the CC text in the mp4 files?

[phred1]

I just "discovered" MediaShrink and find it very interesting.

I thought I'd give it a try for ripping my Miami Vice-collection to x264 (mkv).

I copied all content from a disc to HD and dropped the folder onto MediaShrink. It started converting and I ended up with one file for each episode. Perfect and so far so good!
Unfortunately the files were with English subs only.

What do I need to change to get the Swedish subs included?

Thanks!

[evilpenguin]

Sorry it took me so long to get around to this, i've been crazy busy with work and a remodel the last few months. Hopefully this will fix all of the issues people have reported to me (minus the issue where Handbrake can't detect certain audio tracks properly as 5.1, that's a hard one).

ChangeLog:

• Always picks 1st Handbrake track unless there is a conflict where two tracks have the same audio properties, in which case it'll encode them all (mostly the same as old way, but just tad bit smarter)
• Added /manualTitles which will prompt you to enter the proper DVD titles rather then picking them automatically (Useful if you've found a DVD that the auto-logic doesn't work)
• Added /subLang which you can enter the ISO subtitle code for your language (ex: eng (default), all (include all subtitles), swe (include Swedish subtitles), etc... http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php)
• Fixed issue where sometimes CLI /acode settings weren't being awknowledged
• Fixed crash where if MediaShrink deteced 4:3 content in HDTV it would incorrectly set /yres
• Fixed a crash when using AC3/DTS audio but no autocrop
• Updated overcrop detection upper AR threshold to 1.85 from 1.8
• Re-enabeld ccextractor subtitle detection to handle rare cases where Handbrake misses them
• Moved manual cc extraction above Handbrake to enable .srt in mp4 files
• Put temp subtitle file in %TEMP% directory to work around Handbrake bug where if the .srt file's name is to long it'll truncate it

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mediaShrink v3.0 -

Simple Usage: Drag and drop videos on MediaShrink.exe or MediaShink.bat 
CLI Syntax  : mediaShrink.exe [options] <File|Folder> <File|Folder>

### Basic Options-----------------------------------------------------------

    /help                   Show these options
    /saveLog                Save log file when complete (default)
    /saveAll                Save all temp files when complete
    /batch                  Run in batch mode, intended for Dirmon2/SJQ (default)

    /altLaunch             Use alternate launching meathod.  Should only be
                              used if you're having problems and I ask you to 
                              try it.

### Output Options-----------------------------------------------------------

    /inPlace                Replace the original video when complete
    /outputName <name>      Name for output file.  Default is same as original
                            with new extention.
    /outputDirectory <path> Directory to place encoded video.  Default is same
                            path as original.
                            
    /centralWorkFolder <path> Directory to do all temp work, useful if your 
                              videos are stored on a NAS or recording drive
                              that you don't want affected by encoding work.
                              
    /container <container>  A/V container to use
                              - mkv : Uses mkv container (default)
                              - mp4 : Uses mp4 container

### Video Options ---------------------------------------------------------

    /vcodec <encoder>      Set the video encoder
                            - x264   : Uses x264 encoder (default)
                            - ffmpeg : Uses ffmpeg encoder, roughly divx
    
    /vbitrate <kbs>        Set video bitrate (Default 1500)

    /vProfile <profile>    Sets the video encoding profile
                             - HQ       : Slow and pretty
                             - MQ       : A nice mix of speed and quality (default)
                             - LQ       : Fast enough for slow machines
                             - portable : For playback on portable devices
                             - custom   : Uses custom parameters from /x264opts

   /x264opts <options>     Sets custom x264 options
                             - ex: ref=2:bframes=2:subme=6:mixed-refs=0
                             
   /onePass                Performs a one-pass encode (default)
   /twoPass                Performs a two-pass encode                         
                                 
   /xRes <###>             Scale video to ????x#### (Y Res is auto-calculated)
   /yRes <###>             Scale video to ####x???? (X Res is auto-calculated)
   
   /IVTC                   Uses Handbrakes variable frame rate encoding
   /noIVTC                 Blocks usage of IVTC by autoEncode
    
   /denoise                Uses Hanbrakes denoise filter
   /noDenoise              Blocks usage of denoise by autoEncode

   /decomb                 Uses Hanbrakes decomb filter (Selective Deinterlace)
   /noDecomb               Blocks usage of decomb by autoEncode

   /deinterlace            Uses Hanbrakes deinterlace filter
   /noDeinterlace          Blocks usage of denoise by autoEncode

   /autoCrop               Automatically crop videos to remove black bars
   /noAutoCrop             Disable Automatic Cropping
    
   /noSubtitles            MediaShrink will automatically attempt to attach
                            all subtitle/CC tracks it finds since its a pretty
                            harmless operation.  Set this if you want to disable
                            
### Audio Options --------------------------------------------------------------

    /acodec <encoder>      Set the audio encoder
                              - faac   : AAC codec (Default Stereo/SDTV)
                              - lame   : MP3 codec
                              - vorbis : OGG codec
                              - ac3    : AC3 passthough (Default HDTV)
                              - dts    : DTS passthough

    /abitrate <kbs>        Set audio bitrate in kbs (Default 160)

    /atrack <Track #>        Pick the Audio Track # as seen by handbrake. (Default 1)

    Note: atrack, abitrate, acodec can take comma separated values to force multiple tracks
    
    /allAudio              Force mediaSrhink to encode all audio tracks      

### DVD Options ------------------------------------------------------------

    /subLang <lang Code|all>  Lets user specify the language code of the 
                              subtitles they want to extract (default: eng)

                              http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php

    /manualTitles           Prompts user to manually specify the DVD titles to encode

    /forceTitle <#,#,...>   By default mediaShrink will automatically attempt to 
                            detect which titles to encode, however, sometimes it
                            is impossible.  For those cases you can specify just
                            the DVD title numbers you want to encode sepeated by
                            commas.
                            
### Commercial Cutting Options ------------------------------------------------------------
    REQUIRES VIDEOREDO TO BE INSTALLED
    
    /cutComm                Attempt to cut the commercials.  If no edl or vprj
                            file exists it will attempt to make one using comskip
    
    /onlyWhenVprj           Only cut if a vprj file already exists (default)

Also, for you SJQ users, here's my server/client configuration for launching it and its working great.

Server: Encode any mpg older than 30 days

# My Favorites to be encoded at the highest quality
if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsTVFile{} == true && MediaAge > "30D" && Filename =$ ".mpg" && $.GetShowTitle{} =% "(Lost|Burn Notice|24|Dollhouse|House)"] 
{
   MEDIASHRINKHQ
}
# Hour long shows are usually more cinematic so give them more bitrate
if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsTVFile{} == true && MediaAge > "30D" && Filename =$ ".mpg" && $.GetShowTitle{} !% "(Lost|Burn Notice|24|Dollhouse|House)" && $.GetFileDuration{} >= 1800000] 
{
   MEDIASHRINKMQ
}
# 30 Minute shows usually don't have a lot of action and can live with less bitrate
if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsTVFile{} == true && MediaAge > "30D" && Filename =$ ".mpg" && $.GetShowTitle{} !% "(Lost|Burn Notice|24|Dollhouse|House)" && $.GetFileDuration{} < 1800000]  
{
   MEDIASHRINKLQ
}

Client: Run Monday-Friday 1 AM - 2 PM

MEDIASHRINKHQ
{
   :CPU "LOW"
   :OFFHOUR "0-1, 16-23"
   :OFFDAY "1, 7"
   :MAX 1
   :RESOURCES 51
   "D:/upnp2podcast/mediaScraper/mediaShrink.exe \"%c%\" /inPlace /batch /vprofile HQ /vbitrate 2500 /twopass"
}

MEDIASHRINKMQ
{
   :CPU "LOW"
   :OFFHOUR "0-1, 16-23"
   :OFFDAY "1, 7"
   :MAX 1
   :RESOURCES 51
   "D:/upnp2podcast/mediaScraper/mediaShrink.exe \"%c%\" /inPlace /batch /vbitrate 2500 /onePass "
}

MEDIASHRINKLQ
{
   :CPU "LOW"
   :OFFHOUR "0-1, 16-23"
   :OFFDAY "1, 7"
   :MAX 1
   :RESOURCES 51
   "D:/upnp2podcast/mediaScraper/mediaShrink.exe \"%c%\" /inPlace /batch /vbitrate 1500 /onePass "
}

[perfessor101]

Hello EvilPenguin,
I was curious if you had a chance in all the craziness to relax the autocrop detection.

If not, I was curious if there was a version of mediashrink that didn't crop so aggresively? Closely cropped is good for me ... I don't like overcropping so much.

It feels funny asking because I can remember someone asking you to crop more and more aggressively to get rid of the 'channel bugs' ... I don't mind the bugs as they fit on my LCD most times. Regza 16X9

On Ren & Stimpy - Big Baby ... it's cropping from 720X480 to 608X448.
There is video from top to bottom of frame and side to side it has maybe 16 pixels in black total. So we'll say maybe 32 pixels versus it cropping 112.

I want it to crop about 2-4% of the picture in this case ... but it's dropping about 21% of the picture (an extra 16-19%) and I realize that most times the action is in the middle of the screen ...

I was curious if part of the problem may be that I pre-cut the commercials before running mediashrink so I don't have the aspect ratios of the commercials mixed in when it tries to detect the size of the picture in the frame?

Thanks for your time,
Bobby


ps - I checked the log files ... it seems to find the crops pretty well (except for when the vertical crop isn't needed) ... but then it appears to scale the cropped video to 4:3 divisable by 16

X Integer (700 / 16) * 16 equals 688
Y Integer (480 / 16) * 16 equals 480

I would be happy with 688 X 480 in the case of this video and let SageTV do an Aspect fill to full screen ... or would SageTV mangle the Aspect Ratio ?

and from here it appears to scale it for 4:3 Resolution chopping 80 more pixels on the X-axis ... to balance the 32 pixels taken off the Y-Axis

Overcropping the Y-Axis leads to double Cropping on the X-Axis to maintain the aspect ratio.

      ? autoCrop: 10:470:10:710 (751 / 1500) 
      ? Adjusted for Overscan: 10:470:10:710 (15 x 10)
      + Orignal Cropped Res: 700 x 460 (1.52173913043478)
      + Crop settings look ok to me!
        - cropX/xRes (0.955555555555556)   > .72
        - cropY/yRes(0.933333333333333)   > .72
        - 1.25 < cropX/cropY (1.53571428571429)  < 1.8
        - abs(TopCrop - BottomCrop) (16 -  16)  < 30
        - abs(RightCrop - LeftCrop) (15 - 17) < 30
      + Scaled for res for 4:3: 608 x 448 (1.35714285714286) 
        - Cropped Res Divisable by 16: 608 x 448

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by perfessor101

Hello EvilPenguin,
I was curious if you had a chance in all the craziness to relax the autocrop detection.

If not, I was curious if there was a version of mediashrink that didn't crop so aggresively? Closely cropped is good for me ... I don't like overcropping so much.

Have you tried 3.0b or 3.0c, I added in some new protections to prevent overcropping.

Also, some of the crop you're seeing comes from the fact that 720x480 isn't a real aspect ratio (~1.5 vs. 1.333/1.778). So for 4:3 content, you can think of it like i'm automatically adjusting the video horizontally to 640 automatically to remove the need for wacky aspect ratio settings.

Edit: So what you're seeing in the log is...

1. Determine the crop independent of AR.
2. Chop off overscan
3. Check to see if the crop is indicating 4:3 in 16:9 or letterboxed content
4. Check the crop values to verify that it doesn't create strange aspect ratios or crops the top/bottom or left/right lopsided (ex: 10 from the top 100 from the bottom)
5. Then, if the original video has a 4:3 AR, I scale it down so that the pixel AR is 4:3 also
6. Finally, I automatically set the /yres to match what the cropped/scaled value should be and then Handbrake takes care of the rest.

If I did everything correctly, even though i'm cutting off ~80 extra pixels from the resolution, the actual picture should be getting scaled properly and you shouldn't be losing any actual content from that. Just the ~10 pixels from overscan plus anything additional that's detected (plus a few pixels here and there due math/rounding/scaling).

[evilpenguin]

Found a few bugs with yesterday's code so I updated the download.

* Fixed bug where ac3/dts videos w/o autocrop would fail
* Fixed bug where subs were not being picked up and added to %%INPUT_SUB%%
* Fixed bug where the last DVD title was not showing up in title detection
* Increased upper limit of overcrop detection AR to 1.85 from 1.8

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[perfessor101]

I know I complain alot ...
(might have been why I choose Ren & Stimpy's Big Baby episode ... or that I'm converting all those episodes for testing and the next time a bestfriend comes over before the Rob Zombie concert and this was the latest file converted)

and thank you for your explanation ...

It was just that if I played the original and the converted both in seperate instances of mplayer ... and placed the converted on top ... the crop seemed more agressive than I was hoping for ... but then I guess I was comparing overscan to 'real' video

Bobby

[frontlinegeek]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

* Increased upper limit of overcrop detection AR to 1.85 from 1.8

Does this mean that for movies that are wider than 1.78:1, they will play properly in SageTV?

I ask as I was having a grand time using this (Thanks a bunch BTW!!!) and then when I went to play the rips on Sage, they were squished. I was playing fine on my Win7 box in WMP so I assumed things were fine.

I need to re-rip and re-encode a fair number of movies now because of this issue so please let me know if this latest version does indeed fix this issue.

I did all of my "failed" encoding with version 3.0b.


Thanks again!
Jason.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by perfessor101

It was just that if I played the original and the converted both in seperate instances of mplayer ... and placed the converted on top ... the crop seemed more agressive than I was hoping for ... but then I guess I was comparing overscan to 'real' video

Care to post some screenshots? It may be cutting more aggressively than i'm thinking.

Originally Posted by que3jxp

Does this mean that for movies that are wider than 1.78:1, they will play properly in SageTV?

I've encoded quite a few 2.39:1 movies and they look just fine, can you take a screen shot of what you mean by squished? Also, what aspect ratio settings are you using in Sage, should be set to Source.

(Also, is this a PC client or extender. I've had problems where the PC client couldn't handle aspect ratio's properly with some decoders)

[frontlinegeek]

By squished, I mean the 2.35:1 is filling the 16:9 screen and making people tall.


I am using SageTVClient 6.6.2, Windows XP, FFDShow from about 1 month ago and the setting in Sage for aspect ratio is set to source. I set the playback decoders back to the Sage defaults and it still makes everything tall.

[evilpenguin]

Can you download mediaInfo and check the video attributes, I bet the video's fine but Sage isn't working right.

[perfessor101]

Hello EvilPenguin ...
I choose a scene with some brickwork in the background to do a better still comparison.
Normally I'm running the video and could tell the size difference quite dramatically.

It's over cropping a little now ...
and when I lined the still images up on the bottom ...

I realized I missed it earlier, that it was overcropping a little and resizing it a little too, which made it look even more aggressive.
I was hoping for close cropped but no picture loss and I realize now that it was less 'picture loss' and more pixel loss.

I missed that it was reszing the picture smaller too and I was thinking it was all crop and no resize ... Sorry

I feel bad about missing the resize ... most of my setups at work are within a few thousands of an inch and a few tenths of a degree bending metal ... and I can't tell a quarter inch difference in where Stimpy's head lands on the screen watching a running video side by side

[frontlinegeek]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Can you download mediaInfo and check the video attributes, I bet the video's fine but Sage isn't working right.

Here is the info. I also agree that there is likely nothing wrong with the encode as I redid one with 3d and it is still squishy facing everything when played in Sage.

I am starting to think that this particular client is being a pain. I will also try with another and see what the deal is.