My time with Plex..

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

LINK

DVRMS toolbox very powerful too to auto watch strip commercials and convert.



I have a great powershell script written for batch converting one whole drive to another whole drive. It works really well on DVD's. Still working on getting solid results with Bluray rips. Happy to share if u PM me. Note it doesn't delete anything after converting.

1.Take original Video_TS and converts to new location with same folder name as original and filename is foldername.mkv

example:
d:\Blood Simple\video_ts---Original
e:\Blood Simple\blood simple.mkv---new

Happy to share I converted almost 1k native dvd rips so far without any issues. You will have to configure the script a bit to match your directories...I guess I could stop being lazy and automate that part. It only rips on movie at a time. Average DVD for me takes around 3 to 4 minutes. Doesn't use much processor since it's only doing one at a time.

Would love to try that, but you seem to have disabled your PM's somehow. You still have the same email? I think I've got it saved from the SMM beta testing days. Speaking of which, you wouldn't happen to have your source for that would you?

[camTexas]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

Would love to try that, but you seem to have disabled your PM's somehow. You still have the same email? I think I've got it saved from the SMM beta testing days. Speaking of which, you wouldn't happen to have your source for that would you?

Wouldn't mind trying that out myself... but I don't have your email (never went down the SMM path). - Chad

[PLUCKYHD]

Haha sorry about that. I was getting to much junk at one time. Shoot me an pm they should be on now For reference it copys the xmls and images in the folder from my movies as well

I'll let u beta test the makemkv script I am testing on blurays tonight having some issue getting hd audio into the mkv but I am pretty sure I fixed that tonight.

As for source thats a no unfortunately. Had a rough year not to get personal but had to give computers to ex and wipe others clean wasn't in a good state of mind. So needless to say I don't have the source any longer.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by camTexas

Wouldn't mind trying that out myself... but I don't have your email (never went down the SMM path). - Chad

Shoot me a pm they should be on now.

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

LINK

DVRMS toolbox very powerful too to auto watch strip commercials and convert.



I have a great powershell script written for batch converting one whole drive to another whole drive. It works really well on DVD's. Still working on getting solid results with Bluray rips. Happy to share if u PM me. Note it doesn't delete anything after converting.

1.Take original Video_TS and converts to new location with same folder name as original and filename is foldername.mkv

example:
d:\Blood Simple\video_ts---Original
e:\Blood Simple\blood simple.mkv---new

Happy to share I converted almost 1k native dvd rips so far without any issues. You will have to configure the script a bit to match your directories...I guess I could stop being lazy and automate that part. It only rips on movie at a time. Average DVD for me takes around 3 to 4 minutes. Doesn't use much processor since it's only doing one at a time.

which profile do you use in DVRMSToolBox? Everyone i see is set to manipulate DVRMS files which i don't use. All i want to do is convert recording to m4v/mp4 via ffmpeg, detect commericals again if i have to, then cut the comercials out of the file. move the new file to new folder.... i tried many different ones, creating my own, etc but each time i get a file is not a dvrms file.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

As for source thats a no unfortunately. Had a rough year not to get personal but had to give computers to ex and wipe others clean wasn't in a good state of mind. So needless to say I don't have the source any longer.

Sorry to hear that buddy.

[PLUCKYHD]

Those that have asked for the converter. Give me through the weekend on working on a simple UI for the converter to make it plain and simple. Nothing fancy, but so it won't require editing any code or anything. I'll just post it up somewhere on these forums and share it.

Making any kind of UI from powershell== not my favorite thing

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Those that have asked for the converter. Give me through the weekend on working on a simple UI for the converter to make it plain and simple. Nothing fancy, but so it won't require editing any code or anything. I'll just post it up somewhere on these forums and share it.

Making any kind of UI from powershell== not my favorite thing

Do u have a custom profile for dvrmstoolbox?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by PiX64

Do u have a custom profile for dvrmstoolbox?

I use to but haven't used sage in a while I am in the process of setting it back up as a backend to record for plex. I will have to reconfigure one more than willing to share.

[KryptoNyte]

Originally Posted by PiX64

which profile do you use in DVRMSToolBox? Everyone i see is set to manipulate DVRMS files which i don't use. All i want to do is convert recording to m4v/mp4 via ffmpeg, detect commericals again if i have to, then cut the comercials out of the file. move the new file to new folder.... i tried many different ones, creating my own, etc but each time i get a file is not a dvrms file.

VAP is a custom program written to use and automate the power of the VideoRedo software. Vap does exactly those things you mention, with an intermediate/pause step (if you wish) where you have a chance to visually review and adjust commercial cuts prior to final save and encoding to mp4. Although the VideoRedo software can be used for a couple weeks in demo mode, you would eventually have to dump the cash on it - after about 1 week of use, I didn't hesitate to purchase VideoRedo.

http://www.videoredo.net/msgBoard/forumdisplay.php?f=41

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by KryptoNyte

VAP is a custom program written to use and automate the power of the VideoRedo software. Vap does exactly those things you mention, with an intermediate/pause step (if you wish) where you have a chance to visually review and adjust commercial cuts prior to final save and encoding to mp4. Although the VideoRedo software can be used for a couple weeks in demo mode, you would eventually have to dump the cash on it - after about 1 week of use, I didn't hesitate to purchase VideoRedo.

http://www.videoredo.net/msgBoard/forumdisplay.php?f=41

Awesome thanks. I'll take a look. How much does it cost? And does it actually monitor e directories r is it a single file/batch type of deal?

[PLUCKYHD]

Well I start something small and then always then I want it to do this or that...Needless to say I have decided to add Auto Ripping of disc inserted in drives and then eject those. Basically auto convert using MakeMKV. I never liked the default _t00 and title00 crap makemkv put on my files or the "_" on the files and directories when ripping from disk....Anyhow I have a script written for it just need to figure out the monitoring part of the drives. I'll probably go ahead and release the batch converter soon for those of u waiting on that.

[KryptoNyte]

Originally Posted by PiX64

Awesome thanks. I'll take a look. How much does it cost? And does it actually monitor e directories r is it a single file/batch type of deal?

It's a hundred bucks. The cost bites for a week or two, then you realize how much work the folks have put into VideoRedo and the fact that the developers still actively support it daily, much like Sage used to be (and still is to some small degree).

NOTE: VAP is a standalone (FREE) program that calls VideoRedo (paid). It uses an active monitor directory. I use it almost every day to process video files.

It's especially useful for Sage folks, because our "metadata" is proprietary in Sage, VAP heads to theTVdb.com and can fetch metadata previously not available to anything but Sage. It's a ... bit of a different way of going about having control over your final filenames, but it works well. I also like to think beyond Sage with regard to how I name my final video files.

I will mention, as soon as you change the filename of a recorded SageTV file, if you choose to use VAP in that manner, it will need to be re-adopted by Sage, and Sage will no longer have it's proprietary metadata available. I use VAP as more of a long-term solution, keeping all vital metadata info in the filename itself.

For example, a final recording filename, run through the whole system, VRD quickstream fix, commercials cut, and encoded to mp4 might be something like;

THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW S03E05 - The Cow Thief.mp4

This is just an example. Your final filenames could be whatever you want them to be.

[drewg]

Originally Posted by drewg

For those of you running plex with a native Mac or Windows server: How good is the quality of the "webkit" (flash/silverlight) plugins? Things like Hulu or ESPN3 when displayed via a Roku? Since I use linux, I have to setup a windows plex server in a VM to get flash based plugins to work.

I was hoping for a better experience than Playon provides

To answer my own question: At least with a Mac acting as the Plex server, the ESPN3 and Hulu plugins work. But the ESPN3 quality is pretty bad, and it seems nearly impossible to skip around. For what I really want to do with plex (espn3 access), it seems like either a dedicated PC or Xbox360 is probably the only choice.

Drew

[seaverd]

I am anxious to see where this goes. I have a hd300 that failed several months ago and have been looking for a replacement. In the mean time I have been playing with the raspberry pi and XBMC. I tried Plex awhile ago, however with all my movies in .vob format, the thought of converting them to a plex direct play format that would work on my Roku XS and Nexus 7 tables was overwhelming.

PluckyHD, I can't wait to see what you come up with. In the meantime I am going to look at the DVRMSToolbox (DTB). Do you have any recommended settings for the Roku XS?

One issue that I will have to workout with DTB is getting my comskip tuned perfectly. Right now I have some shows that do not comskip properly at the end like Modern Family or a show like survivor where they show clips during the credits...with DTB these portions of the show will be cut. This was never an issue with an extender as I could manually turn off comskip and watch the end.

Dan

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by seaverd

One issue that I will have to workout with DTB is getting my comskip tuned perfectly. Right now I have some shows that do not comskip properly at the end like Modern Family or a show like survivor where they show clips during the credits...with DTB these portions of the show will be cut. This was never an issue with an extender as I could manually turn off comskip and watch the end.

Dan

U using compskip or show analyzer? U can modify it to not touch the last 5 minutes of any show to avoid that issue

[seaverd]

I have licenses/donations to both of those, however I use comskip, I know the following does what you say: always_keep_last_seconds=300
I remember setting it up at some point, I wouldn't be surprised if I accidentally overwrote my comskip.ini file during an upgrade. I also think I am using the sagetv plugin to kickoff comskip and that had a feature to set the path of your comskip.ini file...so I have several things to check out.

What do you use comskip or show analyzer?

Also quick question about fast forwarding on Roku XS...lets say I don't mark the last 5 minutes and want to fast forward through some commercials...when you fast forward or skip ahead does the Roku have to rebuffer? Last time I played with Plex it did, however the file was an mpeg2 so the server was having to transcode it for playback on the Roku.

Now that I think about it, I should just encode a movie with handbrake and see for myself!

[darcilicious]

Here's just one more reason to LOVE Plex --

As many of you already know, PlexSync is cloud and server-based, and thanks to that, you can now queue up media to be converted for any of your devices from the convenience of a browser, no matter where in the world you are.

So you might be at work, and between designing spacecraft or performing open-heart surgery, you’re busy getting your iPad (sitting at home) ready for your upcoming vacation. Not that we at Plex condone ever doing anything other than work, at work. Really.

This also means that you can now use the advanced filters available in Plex/Web and send the results to one of your devices. So you could select “unwatched movies rated PG and released in the last three years”, for example, and this smart filter would continually watch for movies matching that criteria and convert them for your device. Pretty cool, right?

There’s also a cool new “activity” view which shows what your server is working on (yes, we will be enhancing it in the future to show more activity, which many of you have been asking for).

(Requires PlexPass subscription)

More from the blog post.

[rlvogel322]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Well I start something small and then always then I want it to do this or that...Needless to say I have decided to add Auto Ripping of disc inserted in drives and then eject those. Basically auto convert using MakeMKV. I never liked the default _t00 and title00 crap makemkv put on my files or the "_" on the files and directories when ripping from disk....Anyhow I have a script written for it just need to figure out the monitoring part of the drives. I'll probably go ahead and release the batch converter soon for those of u waiting on that.

After seeing this thread and looking into Plex I am in the process of moving my movie collection to mkv. Have you released your batch converter yet? I'm going through my BluRays and getting AC3 into them where it's missing but have a bunch of DVDs to do. Just curious.

[PiX64]

Plucky,

Did you get your profile working again for DVRMSToolbox? JW