Plex OTA DVR Postscript

Thanks for the link. I had found handbrake and mcebuddy as options. I was hoping someone here already had a script written to automate the process. I don't mind buying the program, just the scripting part looks confusing.

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hoping someone here already had a script written to automate the process

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It's not difficult at all

If you can answer "which folder do you record to"
"Which folder do you want the final product to end up in" you know enough to get started with it.


The GUI is pretty easy and takes care of anything you'd want to do in the scripting department. should be the free version here. Give it a try. You probably won't gain much with the paid version vs this.

I guess I was bad at explaining it, but yeah-it actively monitors your "source" for specific filetypes.

Deep within, you can adjust series naming info, auto-delete, etc


One thing I recall is that it "tags" files that have been transcoded to avoid duplicates, so if you're going to go back and redo your current ones that have been compressed with h.264 to h.265, you'll probably frustrate yourself if you plan on just keeping the big source files to re-transcode later- you may need to manually add them even. I forget, but that seems to ring a bell for me.

Why would anyone do that?
I was playing with a big batch of raw files to compare speed and quality because I couldn't find much info about it and found quality to be lacking with whichever filetypes I had chosen. I was also using 2010ish hardware with an integrated GPU which caused poor playback during transcoding, but the software even allows you to set how many processor cores you'd like to use and which hours you want to work between.


It's not intuitive, but the features are robust, and it requires absolutely no coding/scripting to be very functional.