compress recordings

[chrysek]

I did see that feature in some STV's but how do I use it? what software do I need and where to get it from? Is there an easy way? like comm skip where it would just create lets say DIVX next to my recording? or make mpeg for my PocketPC?

What I would like to do is to keep old recording but create in the same directory new version maybe that is set for my pocket pc.

Can such be done? what programs would I need for that? I would not like it to be very complicated if possible, I dont want to my head agains the wall to set it all up...

Thanks for help and suggestions.

Chris

[sleonard]

I've been wondering about this also. Just haven't had time to spend on this yet.

[weyker]

As someone recently told me, you want either AutoGK (free at http://autogk.net) to make xvids or Dr. Divx (not free, but trial available) if you want ot make divx's. You can make free Divx5 with Auto GK only if you use the spyware Divx5 free encoder.

Be sure to have some space open for large temp files when compressing, and start compressing when your machine doesn't need to record anything for a long while.

I personally would love to see AutoGK integrated with Sage, even through an STV.

And I'd really *really* love to see some modifired version of AutoGK that cuts out all ads marked by comskip during the conversion process.

--Shayne

[sleonard]

I have Dr. DivX and have been using it for quite awhile but I still can't figure out what the compress option in Cayar's STV (e.g.) does. It does not start Dr. DivX or seem to do anything for that matter.

[abasu2003]

they use ffmpeg which you can get from the thread titled ffmpeg. I'm not exactly sure if cayar's stv currently supports it in a working format though

[Cayars]

Yep, it works in version 15 just fine as long as you aren't using UNCs as ffmpeg doesn't support this.

Compression will be supported out of the "box" in version 16.

[sleonard]

Ahh, I do use UNC's. Guess that means I'm out of luck Also means I now know why nothing happens when I try it

What about 16? UNC's? MPEG2? MP4/DivX/Xvid?

[chrysek]

Originally Posted by Cayars

Yep, it works in version 15 just fine as long as you aren't using UNCs as ffmpeg doesn't support this.

Compression will be supported out of the "box" in version 16.

You are the best ))))

How can you do all of the stuff?!? Your STV is the best, you get all the features included that people want, your STV is all time favorite, just it has everything in it.. ))

Cayars, thank you so so so much for your hard work and what you've created....

[Cayars]

I don't know if I'd agree with "best", but I'd agree if you said "most comprehensive".

[Cayars]

Has anyone taken a look at the source code to ffmpeg to see if UNCs could be supported? I'd do it but I've got a "Full Plate" already!

Any C coders up for it?

[Wheemer]

A member of the Snapstream community made a drop folder app that works in conjunction with autogk. Essentially all the stv has to do is move the recording into the predefined folder and autogk does it's business and places the completed divx/xvid file in the folder of your choice.

I don't know if this can help anyone, but it makes including recompression in the stvs really easy.

http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20628

[k1114]

I have been thinking of trying to write a plugin for this for quite a while now, but only seriously since today. Sage would have to output some sort of file which contains the options specified (filename, compress options, etc) and the handler would convert them to command line arguments to do the external compression and move around the files

The handler could be super simple, something along the lines of: (simplified pseudo code here folks)

ppd

structure
{
optionvar1,2,3,etc
};

main
{
open file for reading
system command (compress.exe -optionvar1 -optionvar2 -etc,etc,etc)

if copy/delete old var = 1/0
system move(newfilename old dir -> new dir)
system del(filename)

write results to file
close file
}

I'd get to work on it, although honestly I don't know if there is a need since cayars is planning on having this whole mess integrated anyway I'm a big fan of his STV and i'd probably use his integrated compression over my own program if I wrote it. That and I know nothing about sage plugins, so i'd probably spend days figuring out the hard part of it. So basically it would be a fun project but maybe not worth the effort?

[abasu2003]

ffmpeg and cayar's integration of it pretty much does what you're suggesting. if you odn't want to use ffmpeg, you can just use nielm's custom commands module (or custom command within one of the STV's) to output the episode as an argument of a command

[k1114]

Edit: turns out im stupid, cayars already does this! You can (AFAIK, testing now) set the import folder to be the target folder, and then rename the the menus accordingly. I removed the library folder from the menu and changed the tv recordings title to "New Recordings" and the library to "Compressed Recordings". Looks like now the compress option will encode it and move it to the library.