Utility: MediaShrink v3.0 - An HTPC focused encoder

[ChaOConnor]

EP, I realize this is a long shot as I don't have the logs with me (I'm at work), but I've noticed something w/ the latest MediaShrink.

I use SJQ to kick of mediashrink on my kids shows to save for all eternity. Recently, since I upgraded to Sage v7 (so this maybe a v7 issue...) and the latest MediaShrink, the actual recordings run fine (all done from an HDHomeRun, ClearQAM, PBS HD Channel), but after going through MediaShrink, they come out the other end all sped up. Like it's running at double or tripple time.

Again, shot in the dark here, but any idea what could be causing this? My next step is to roll back a version of MediaShrink and try it again, b/c the same shows used to "shrink" fine. If that doesn't work, I may have to roll back Sage v7.

Anyway, appreciate any insight you could provide, take care!

- Cha

[BKeadle]

Can I take a TV Episode DVD and break out the episodes directly from the DVD...without first having to copy the DVD to HDD? How? I'm trying this:
DVDRip.CMD

cd /D "%~DP0"
start /I /B /LOW /WAIT mediaShrink.exe /outputDirectory %~DP0 /centralWorkFolder %~DP0 R:\

Where R: is my DVD drive, and I'm specifying the output and work directory to be the HDD location where MediaShrink.exe exists.

[BKeadle]

I should have paid more attention!


After editing most of my recorded VHS to create a .VPRJ then processing them with MediaShrink...confident that they were being cropped according to my edits, I only now discovered that they were not, seemingly the edits ignored. ARGH!

Isn't this the correct mediaShrink.defaults.txt that's supposed to work?

/batch /onlyWhenVprj /saveLog /cutComm /onePass /defaultProfile autoEncode /findFileRegEx "avi|mpg|mkv|mp4|mpeg|VIDEO_TS|ts|ogm|divx|mpts|dvr-ms|vob"

the .vprj file was in the same directory as the .mpg being processed.

So now what? How do I go about fixing this mess?

[sdsean]

Ok I'm a newbie on this thing, and just trying it out for the 1st time, so bear with me. . .

I'm running on my machine as a admin user, and running from the command line so i don't believe there should be any permissions issues. . .

I'm having trouble getting command line switches to work properly, and end up with error "no profile found".

Here is what I'm trying to do. . .

/saveLog /twoPass /findFileRegEx "avi|mpg|mkv|mp4|mpeg|VIDEO_TS|ts|ogm|divx|mpts|dvr-ms|vob" /defaultProfile autoEncode /yres 720 /ac3 /vbitrate 2500 /noautocrop /container mp4

It works fine if i remove the vbitrate 2500
If I change /defaultProfile to /vProfile HQ still the same thing. . .

Basically I'm just trying to upscale my mpegs to 720p and H.264 encoding of around 2.5Mb, with no black bars. .

[sdsean]

Actually I got it working using this:

/saveLog /twoPass /findFileRegEx "avi|mpg|mkv|mp4|mpeg|VIDEO_TS|ts|ogm|divx|mpts|dvr-ms|vob" /defaultProfile autoEncode /yres 720 /ac3 /vbitrate 2500 /abitrate 192 /container mp4

/noautocrop seems to always fail for me for some reason.

And another question, can I convert files in an mpeg transport stream container rather than mp4 or mkv?

[sdsean]

Also does the command line accept wild cards for files names? (E.G. "E:\foobar\*.*")

[evilpenguin]

MediaShrink v3.0.1

Release Notes:

• Added rough support for Handbrake profiles. Here's a usage example command line for the iPhone, notice that you still have to specify the /container to be mp4.
  

  mediaShrink.exe /container mp4 /handbrakeProfile "iPhone & iPod Touch" /profile "autoEncode"

• Fixed DVD audio audio detection. This has actually been broken for a while, I apologize for the delay in fixing it. To get it working again I had walk back some 2nd audio changes I made for some edge cases, so if you have any audio issues where the Handbrake detects the secondary track as the primary audio track you'll need to take it up with the Handbrake devs.
• Fixed /tee for displaying encoding status in the window. This is good for batch files, but DO NOT USE IT WITH SJQ.
• Added to v7 plug-in list, tucked away under the libraries section. Usage/Configuration is the same as before but this should make notification/distribution easier.

[bialio]

Hey EP - did you ever get a chance to look at the error for MakeMKV generated mkv files?

Log from the latest version of MediaShrink posted.

btl.

[evilpenguin]

Nope, but that's super simple, i'll slip the fix in tonight.

Auto Encode.profile:

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

[BKeadle]

Originally Posted by BKeadle

Can I take a TV Episode DVD and break out the episodes directly from the DVD...without first having to copy the DVD to HDD? How? I'm trying this:
DVDRip.CMD

cd /D "%~DP0"
start /I /B /LOW /WAIT mediaShrink.exe /outputDirectory %~DP0 /centralWorkFolder %~DP0 R:\

Where R: is my DVD drive, and I'm specifying the output and work directory to be the HDD location where MediaShrink.exe exists.

Originally Posted by BKeadle

I should have paid more attention!


After editing most of my recorded VHS to create a .VPRJ then processing them with MediaShrink...confident that they were being cropped according to my edits, I only now discovered that they were not, seemingly the edits ignored. ARGH!

Isn't this the correct mediaShrink.defaults.txt that's supposed to work?

/batch /onlyWhenVprj /saveLog /cutComm /onePass /defaultProfile autoEncode /findFileRegEx "avi|mpg|mkv|mp4|mpeg|VIDEO_TS|ts|ogm|divx|mpts|dvr-ms|vob"

the .vprj file was in the same directory as the .mpg being processed.

So now what? How do I go about fixing this mess?

Any assistance on these previous posts?

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by BKeadle

Any assistance on these previous posts?

1) That should be possible, the only thing stopping it right now is the log file is trying to write to the DVD drive. I've been meaning to change the way log files work for a while, i've got a pretty good system in PlayON that I'll port over.

2) Sorry about that, I sure hope you weren't doing /inPlace encodes . AFAIK VRD commercial cutting still works, i'll give it a shot.

Edit: Yep, working fine for me with /cutComm and /onlyWhenVprj. Not sure what the problem could be, i'd need to see a log.

[BKeadle]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

VRD commercial cutting still works, i'll give it a shot.

How do you mean VRD (I assume VideoReDo?) commercial cutting still works? I'm unable to open .mkv in VRD. I assume .MKVs would honor .edl files so at least my .mkvs would have skip locations? But I'm not sure how I'd go about identifying the demarks in the .MKV file and getting them into an EDL file.

Is there not a way to convert .MKV back to .MPG so that I could use VRD to trim the unwanted segments (before and after the recording)?
(does that make sense?)

[kronick]

sorry if this has been covered but is there a way to manually crop or add a crop setting of my choice that I could use when i want as a switch

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by kronick

sorry if this has been covered but is there a way to manually crop or add a crop setting of my choice that I could use when i want as a switch

don't think so but EP would need to confirm for sure

[kronick]

hmmm I see its not a big deal but I noticed that if i encode after cuttin my commercials it over crops but if I encode before then its perfect just figured maybe I could set a specific crop setting to be done with certain shows

[wayner]

Originally Posted by BKeadle

How do you mean VRD (I assume VideoReDo?) commercial cutting still works? I'm unable to open .mkv in VRD. I assume .MKVs would honor .edl files so at least my .mkvs would have skip locations? But I'm not sure how I'd go about identifying the demarks in the .MKV file and getting them into an EDL file.

Is there not a way to convert .MKV back to .MPG so that I could use VRD to trim the unwanted segments (before and after the recording)?
(does that make sense?)

There is a beta version of VRD that works on H.264 files, I know that it works on .TS files, but I am not sure about MKV files. But I believe the cutting would be done on your source file which, at least when coming out of Sage, would be either MPEG or TS.

[najames]

I installed MediaShrink and manually dropped a couple recordings on it. They took a couple hours but processed nicely, playback looked great, I went from a 20GB Today show dowbn to only about 3GB. However, I have one small problem. My wife tried to fast forward while watching the MKV output on a HD200 extender, but it doesn't forward, just continues to play. She could stop/pause/play ok though.

Is there something I've missed? I have a feeling I am overlooking something obivous.

[perfessor101]

Hello EvilPenguin,

I was curious if there was a way to specify the number of threads / cores for handbrake through mediashrink ...

I would like to be able to specify (cores - 1) for number of threads ...

Thanks for your time,

Bobby

[mp328]

Hey EP, i finally got around installing V7 and along with it SJQ and tried to switch my dirmon2 installation over to SJQ but not having much luck.

can u or someone else have a look at my ruleset here if this makes sense at all pls.

what im trying to do is convert all my shows, basically 30min after recording to ensure the comskip files are there and im cutting commercials out along with it.

pls and tnx

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# My Favorites to be encoded at the highest quality
if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsTVFile{} == true && MediaAge > "30M" && Filename =$ ".mpg" && $.GetShowTitle{} =% "(Lost|Burn Notice|24|Dollhouse|House)"] 
{
   MEDIASHRINKHQ
}
# Hour long shows are usually more cinematic so give them more bitrate
if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsTVFile{} == true && MediaAge > "30M" && Filename =$ ".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 && $.IsTVFile{} == true && MediaAge > "30M" && Filename =$ ".mpg" && $.GetShowTitle{} !% "(Lost|Burn Notice|24|Dollhouse|House)" && $.GetFileDuration{} < 1800000]  
{
   MEDIASHRINKLQ
}

MEDIASHRINKHQ
{
   :CPU "LOW"
   :OFFHOUR "18-23"
   :OFFDAY ""
   :MAX 1
   :RESOURCES 51
   "C:/Program Files/SageTV/SageTV/MediaShrink/mediaShrink.exe \"%c%\" /inPlace /centralWorkFolder "C:\\Temp" /noSubtitles /cutComm /onlyWhenVprj /batch /vprofile HQ /vbitrate 2500"
}

MEDIASHRINKMQ
{
   :CPU "LOW"
   :OFFHOUR "18-23"
   :OFFDAY ""
   :MAX 1
   :RESOURCES 51
   "C:/Program Files/SageTV/SageTV/MediaShrink/mediaShrink.exe \"%c%\" /inPlace /centralWorkFolder "C:\\Temp" /noSubtitles /cutComm /onlyWhenVprj /batch /vbitrate 1500 /onePass"
}

MEDIASHRINKLQ
{
   :CPU "LOW"
   :OFFHOUR "18-23"
   :OFFDAY ""
   :MAX 1
   :RESOURCES 51
   "C:/Program Files/SageTV/SageTV/MediaShrink/mediaShrink.exe \"%c%\" /inPlace /centralWorkFolder "C:\\Temp" /noSubtitles /cutComm /onlyWhenVprj /batch /vbitrate 1000 /onePass"
}

[nyplayer]

Instead of waiting 30 minutes just check to see a vprj file exists

example add this.. that way it will make sure that a videoredo project file exists.
&& FileExists == "%d%/%p%.vprj"

if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsTVFile{} == true && Filename =$ ".mpg" && FileExists == "%d%/%p%.vprj" && $.GetShowTitle{} =% "(Lost|Burn Notice|24|Dollhouse|House)"] 
{
   MEDIASHRINKHQ
}