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<blockquote data-quote="cheezey" data-source="post: 643274" data-attributes="member: 10350">The iPiMPTranscodeToMP4 plugin uses the 'RecordingEnded' TV Server event, if you transcode on a schedule then when a recording finishes the filename of the recording is written to 'transcodeme.txt'.&nbsp; When your scheduled transcoding time is reached the file is copied to 'transcode_working.txt' and 'transcodeme.txt' is deleted (in readiness for new recordings).&nbsp; The plugin then reads the contents of 'transcode_working.txt' into memory, loops through the list of filenames and starts a transcode process for each in turn (only one transcode is done at a time).If this process is interrupted (e.g. by your tv server reboot) then the transcode in progress will stop leaving a partially transcoded file and any subsequent transcodings in memory will not be done.&nbsp; The schedule transcode will kick off again at the required time and with the process described above.I'll have a think on how to make this more robust.&nbsp; You could alos help by experimenting with your custom command line parameters to see if you can meet your transcoding objectives in a shorter time.The plugin also allows you to select channels for which recording should *not* be transcoded.&nbsp; &lt;-- I use this to not record any of my kids or news program recordings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheezey, post: 643274, member: 10350"] The iPiMPTranscodeToMP4 plugin uses the 'RecordingEnded' TV Server event, if you transcode on a schedule then when a recording finishes the filename of the recording is written to 'transcodeme.txt'. When your scheduled transcoding time is reached the file is copied to 'transcode_working.txt' and 'transcodeme.txt' is deleted (in readiness for new recordings). The plugin then reads the contents of 'transcode_working.txt' into memory, loops through the list of filenames and starts a transcode process for each in turn (only one transcode is done at a time). If this process is interrupted (e.g. by your tv server reboot) then the transcode in progress will stop leaving a partially transcoded file and any subsequent transcodings in memory will not be done. The schedule transcode will kick off again at the required time and with the process described above. I'll have a think on how to make this more robust. You could alos help by experimenting with your custom command line parameters to see if you can meet your transcoding objectives in a shorter time. The plugin also allows you to select channels for which recording should *not* be transcoded. <-- I use this to not record any of my kids or news program recordings. [/QUOTE]

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