MP plugin for Video Transcoding (1 Viewer)

[fabriceD06]

Fantastic plugin. Really impressive work.
It does not recode .wmv files.Does it? I get a "failed" when I try to.

Something that would be nice to add to reduce configuration time.
- Set the overall default for saving the recoded files.
- Set the overall framerate
Without losing the ability to apply individual configurations of course.

Words cannot describe the joy I felt when I read:

Changelogs:

- add DVD Rip support (use mplayer to rip dvd)

it is first version, i open to improve this feature, so iwait your feedback

 

[mamachan]

Hi Fabrice, only some questions.

1) I must to put "MediaTranscoder.pdb" in the MP windows plugin folder too??
2) Default profile: why you have setting (HightQuality for example) VideoResolution=720x576(PAL) and VideoFrameRate=60fps NTSC (and not 50fps PAL)??
3) Wich is the difference between 25 and 50fps (fof PAL) ????
4) Which is the quality difference between FFMPEG and MENCODER ?????

Thanks
Massimo

 

[kiesow]

Could you add an option to set the target size instead of bitrate?
Mostly I want to transcode tv series to a size of 700mb. It's much easier to set the target size instead of adjusting the bitrate till I find the right one.

FFMPEG has an option "size=". I know I can configure aditional command-line option with the plugin, but it would be stupid to set size AND bitrate. Or am I wrong?

 

[fabriceD06]

Hi Fabrice, only some questions.

1) I must to put "MediaTranscoder.pdb" in the MP windows plugin folder too??
2) Default profile: why you have setting (HightQuality for example) VideoResolution=720x576(PAL) and VideoFrameRate=60fps NTSC (and not 50fps PAL)??
3) Wich is the difference between 25 and 50fps (fof PAL) ????
4) Which is the quality difference between FFMPEG and MENCODER ?????

Thanks
Massimo

1. yes , it is better for me to have some e=information during a error
2. it is better to use 60fps to avoid the audio/video desync, because during a tv record you can have dirty noise (due to bad signal, etc) in video. After different test i can see when you encode a video with double rate , it reduce a lot the audio/video sync problem.

Hint : USE THESES PROFILES DELIVER IN THE VERSION 0.9 RC1

4. MENCODER allows to apply different video and audio filter (noise3D, normalize, etc..) to improve the quality of the video, FFPMEG and MENCODER use a common base libavcodec so it is very similar but each binary has specific options

Regards,
Fabrice

 

[fabriceD06]

Could you add an option to set the target size instead of bitrate?
Mostly I want to transcode tv series to a size of 700mb. It's much easier to set the target size instead of adjusting the bitrate till I find the right one.

FFMPEG has an option "size=". I know I can configure aditional command-line option with the plugin, but it would be stupid to set size AND bitrate. Or am I wrong?

I am not sure of quality when it specify the size is good, if some people have a feedback about this option , it is welcome

Fabrice

 

[mamachan]

Hi Fabrice, only some questions.

1) I must to put "MediaTranscoder.pdb" in the MP windows plugin folder too??
2) Default profile: why you have setting (HightQuality for example) VideoResolution=720x576(PAL) and VideoFrameRate=60fps NTSC (and not 50fps PAL)??
3) Wich is the difference between 25 and 50fps (fof PAL) ????
4) Which is the quality difference between FFMPEG and MENCODER ?????

Thanks
Massimo

1. yes , it is better for me to have some e=information during a error
2. it is better to use 60fps to avoid the audio/video desync, because during a tv record you can have dirty noise (due to bad signal, etc) in video. After different test i can see when you encode a video with double rate , it reduce a lot the audio/video sync problem.

Hint : USE THESES PROFILES DELIVER IN THE VERSION 0.9 RC1

4. MENCODER allows to apply different video and audio filter (noise3D, normalize, etc..) to improve the quality of the video, FFPMEG and MENCODER use a common base libavcodec so it is very similar but each binary has specific options

Regards,
Fabrice

Thanks for your replay.
Ok for double rate, i apprehended.
But is a good choice to use 60fsp for PAL videos too (or is preferable 50fsp) ???

Very very good plugin

Hi.
Massimo

 

[fabriceD06]

Thanks for your replay.
Ok for double rate, i apprehended.
But is a good choice to use 60fsp for PAL videos too (or is preferable 50fsp) ???

Very very good plugin

Hi.
Massimo

Hi Massimo,

You can use 50 fsp no problem i would have your feedback of video transcoding (TV record) with this settings, when you will finish a transcoding can you give me the feedback ?

Thanks

Fab

 

[een_mq]

Multiple instances

Hi fabrice,

Amazing work you have done here. I have seen transcoders implemented with other media center software, but nothing as integrated as this. The decision to modify the recorded tv database with the new converted file is magic.

I have been using this happily and have claimed about 60GB in space

A feature request if I may:
- ability to set the number of instances of ffmpeg/mencoder , for example people with dual processors would want to set number of process to two. This way, your program will call up ffmpeg/mencoder to process the first file in the queue, while the second ffmpeg/mencoder will process the second file in the queue. And then when one finishes. it will process the next file in the queue.
Of course if you got quad core, you can set up the number of processes in the queue.

This way, encoding time would be twice as fast.

Just my 2 cents...
Again thanks for the great plugin

 

[fabriceD06]

Hi fabrice,

- ability to set the number of instances of ffmpeg/mencoder , for example people with dual processors would want to set number of process to two. This way, your program will call up ffmpeg/mencoder to process the first file in the queue, while the second ffmpeg/mencoder will process the second file in the queue. And then when one finishes. it will process the next file in the queue.
Of course if you got quad core, you can set up the number of processes in the queue.

Hi,

Yes it is good idea i will implemented in next version patch.

Bye
Fabrice

 

[piranha]

This plugin doesn't seem to pick Recorded TV with the new TV3 (at least in singleseat configuration like mine).
When I change source to Recorded TV, nothing appears there.