Divx Converter Service?

[jpaddock3000]

I've been looking all over the place and can't find anything. Does anyone know of a program that will be able to convert video files automatically or via the command line to convert the recorded files to Divx. It would be nice if there was something like the commercial skip software that is constantly scanning the import directory for video files. Please let me know if there is anything out there like this.

Thank you,

[nielm]

Sage 6 has built-in manual recompress.

There is a plugin for Sage6 which autocompresses recordings.

[davephan]

Originally Posted by jpaddock3000

I've been looking all over the place and can't find anything. Does anyone know of a program that will be able to convert video files automatically or via the command line to convert the recorded files to Divx. It would be nice if there was something like the commercial skip software that is constantly scanning the import directory for video files. Please let me know if there is anything out there like this.

Thank you,

In the past, I used Dragon Global's Dirmon to automatically detect new files and removed commercials with ShowAnalyzer.

I now use the Roxy99 batch file/programs to transcode Mpeg2 into high quality AVI files after manually removing the commercials. The files are compressed in 20% of the original size. The process is very CPU intensive, and works best to offload the extreme CPU load from your main SageTV computer secondary computer(s). An AMD 2800 with 1 gig of ram takes about an hour to transcode an hour mpeg file to AVI. A slower Pentium 3 - 900 MHz computer takes several hours to transcode an hour mpeg2 file to AVI. During most of the transcoding process, the CPU will be at or close to 100% sustained utilization. Memory utilization is only several hundred megs. It might take several higher-end CPU based dedicated video transcoding computers to keep up with new programs that are being recorded. If I had more money to spend on the project, I would use about two or three dedicated higher-end CPU based transcoding computers to keep up with the transcoding process (my video transcoding computers are low-end CPU based systems). More high-end CPU based video transcoding systems would also reduce the 'waiting time' from when the program was recorded with mpeg2 to when it is commercial free and compressed to AVI, ready to watch.

Both Comskip and ShowAnalyer remove most of the commercials, but not all of them and not completely clean. So, I manually remove commercials with VideoReDo because it is more accurate than comskp or showanalyzer. It does require more effort to manually remove the commercials, but the end result is better.

After manually removing the commercials with VideoReDo, I manually transcoding the video files to AVI by copying the files to separate dedicated video transcoding computers. The video transcoding computers use the Roxy99 batch files/programs.

I haven't tried it, but it should be possible to combine Dirmon to automatically detect new mpeg2 files, then use the Roxy99 batch files/programs to automatically remove commercials and transcode them to AVI files. However, as I mentioned earlier, you will have to put some money into purchasing high-end CPU based dedicated video transcoding systems, and those systems will be drawing electrical power 24 x 7.

After you transcode the files to AVI, you need more CPU than an AMD 2800 to watch the videos using an MVP. Upon playback, my CPU is sustained at about 100 percent, most of it AVI to Mpeg2 transcoding load.

The larger problem that I already have now is I have hundreds of programs that have no commercials and are compressed that I might never be able to watch, because I don't have that much time to watch television!

Dave

[rickgillyon]

I have a few scripts here which allow overnight/scheduled conversions to XviD/DivX. No monitoring, I just kick it off early morning.