MP plugin for Video Transcoding (1 Viewer)

[idioteque]

AFAIK MediaCoder is doing more or less the same as the Transcoding plugin. Using some presets for ffmpeg or mencoder to transcode a movie. So there's no difference if you use MediaCoder or just call ffmpeg/mencoder with a smiliar profile.

Mediacoder usere much more codecs to encode or decode and there for is much more flexible:

Supported Audio/Video Formats

* MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+v2, MusePack, Speex, Windows Media Audio, AMR NB/WB, RealAudio, mp3PRO*
* FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, OptimFrog, Audio Lossless Coding, WMA Lossless*, WAV
* H.264, XviD, MPEG 1/2/4, Theora, Flash Video, Dirac, H.263, 3ivx*, RealVideo*, Windows Media Video
* AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia*, ASF/WMV*, QuickTime*, OGM*
* CD, VCD, DVD, Cue sheet*

* supported as input only

* not all combinations of audio/video/container formats are supported

Command line syntax:

MediaCoder.exe [-start] [-exit] [-preset <preset file>] [-ui <ui mode>] [-ext <extension id>] [-assume=yes/no/cancel] <files>

Command line options:

* -start: start transcoding after the program is launched
* -exit: exit from the program after all the files are processed
* -preset: load specified preset file after the program is launched
* -ui: force startup user interface mode (0: simple mode, 1: skinned mode, 2: normal mode, 3: expert mode)
* -ext: load specified extension on startup
* -assume: assume answers of confirming message boxes
* <files>: can be one or more file names splitted by a white space, use quotation marks if the file name contains white space

Remarks:

* The <files> can be any kind of files that MediaCoder accepts, including queue file (one file name per line plain text files or XML files).
* Multiple preset files can be loaded (one after another) by adding multiple -preset <preset file>.

I dont care which codecs we use or what program. I noticed that a lot pf problems are transcode problems and for me mediacoder does the right thing, without problems. FFmpeg and mediacoder alone dont

Media transcoding SDK

MobileCoder SDK is an easy-to-use SDK for converting audio and video files to mobile devices playable files. It is based on the core of MediaCoder with additional programmability. It supports all audio/video formats and features which MediaCoder does. It features

* C/C++ API interface
* Profile-based media transcoding
* Output transcoded stream in chunks by specified duration or file size
* Mobile device connectivity and file transmission features (experimental)
* Sample code

Please email to consult@mediacoder.cn to request for a demo of the SDK.

 

[fabriceD06]

Hi ,

I will start the fix of bugs in transoding plugin and improve the UI

i recently use MediaCoder, it is a nice tool but it has the same transcoding problem on difficult dvr-ms (like bad signal, bad frame) and after the audio and video are not sync. I am not surprise because the base of the tool is mencoder and ffmpeg. Moreover the output file can be not readable in MPstandard because MediaCoder uses diffrent codecs(ex: when it uses x264.exe)

i don't close the door to integrate media coder , i need more feeback for other users of transcoding plugin about MediaCoder.

Fab

 

[idioteque]

ok thx ill wait and see

 

[pollyplopp]

Am I the only person that gets videoproblems if I choose to transcode with AC3 ?

The video gets all messed up, it skips 10s of seconds/minutes but the sound is ok?
It happens everytime I choose AC3, no warnings in the log what I can see.

 

[henrik4223]

I have not taken the time to read all 28 pages BUT

Can anyone answer me, if converting .ts files to .mpg files is supported?

 

[zukex]

would it be possible to integrate batch, just a 'C:\path\encode_routine.bat {0}' or something that would just run 'c:\path\encode_routine.bat c:\video\filename.mpg'... of course if couldn't have a progress meter other than having a state of 'running' and 'done'... but this would still be very useful since this way people could (if they have the required skills) use any encoder that can take command line parameters and still use mediaportal and possibly even powerscheduler to handle the encoding.

or is this already possible via other plugins/means?

 

[pechspilz]

Did any of you manage to successfully transcode using the ipod profile in the latest version? I tried mencoder and ffmpeg but I'm unable to encode an H264 file with AAC into a .mov or .mp4

 

[seven5]

when will the plugin get the ability to query video to find its correct aspect? Manually setting 16:9 or 4:3 is worthless. Some videos are one aspect and others are another. And movies don't even USE these 2 aspects. I think this is a huge miss on this plugin. FFMPEG can query the video file to get the original video size, a little bit of math after that and you're done.

 

[MSMP]

Transcoding & output path settings

Hi,

I've been using transcoder for some time and most of the time it works really great, if you don't want to compress to hard. (I use apx 1GB / Hr recording after compressing) However, I would like to save the output file of the compression onto a different disk. (Reading from one, Transcoding and writing to second drive) I helps a lot in the performance, and will save the drives a bit. No matter how I set the output path, it won't do it. Keeps saving the output file in the same directory as the source file. If I go back to settings and look up the default profile or any of the previously set profiles, I see "true" in the path box.

Any hints on how to fix that? (Workaround by manually editing some profile files??)

 

[RedeviL]

Thank you for the awesome plugin fabriceD06!

I do have one small cosmetic bug to report.

I have been working with very large (~8GB), long recordings (~3 hours).
The transcoder works perfectly, the end result is flawless.

The issue lies in converting from DVR-MS to MPEG.
It keeps increasing the % done all the way to ~600% before it completes!

I have the Use PowerDVD 6 option selected, as I couldn't get it to work otherwise.
No errors are shown, it's simply visual.

The actual compression section to XviD reports the correct % at ends at 100%.