Video Transcoding
Tdarr
Our great sponsors
Video Transcoding | Tdarr | |
---|---|---|
9 | 111 | |
2,346 | 2,618 | |
- | - | |
0.0 | 3.8 | |
6 months ago | 15 days ago | |
Ruby | Makefile | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Video Transcoding
-
The Deception of “Buying” Digital Movies
I use this project by Don Melton to get a Blu-ray video down to an 8 - 10 GB file size: https://github.com/donmelton/video_transcoding
It uses HandBrake, FFmpeg, MKVToolNix, and MP4v2 with some custom tuned settings and has really good results from my experience.
-
What Are Your Most Used Self Hosted Applications?
I have primarily used Plex and pretty much everything you said is accurate for Plex as well. Limited transcoding based on the machine it is running on. As disc has become cheaper, I have pretty much stopped doing batch transcodes, which is great for the most part. But there are definitely negatives when you want to watch something offline, or remotely. Biggest pain point is subtitles though. Since they aren't ripped as text and then sent to a client, they have to be burned in to the video itself and transcoded on the fly. Which means losing out on 'forced' ones if it can't transcode fast enough.
Plex has definitely started to try and commercialize itself more and offer other stuff, when all I want is access to my own media. So I may look into Jellyfin more soon.
As for batch transcode jobs, I had a system that I was able to set up as essentially a black box. Drop a rip into a folder and out the other side comes a smaller one at a reasonable quality. With forced subs burned right into the actual video. Mostly based on https://github.com/donmelton/video_transcoding
- I know this is a super specific thing to ask, but would anyone that rips their collection to a Plex server care to share your compression settings?
-
BluRay Movie File Size Question
I use Don Melton’s tools to transcode videos to mp4 files. His tools makes use of Handbrake but he has it tuned to produce very small video files of very high quality. You are unlikely to notice the difference when watching the videos.
-
Hit my goal. 100 movies in one year. Done the “old fashioned” way (rip—>encode). Made it with two days to spare. (Plex server built Sept 29, 2020)
Checkout https://github.com/donmelton/video_transcoding. In my experience produces higher quality and smaller files than handbrake alone.
-
Best Handbrake settings for transcoding
When I was ripping my disc collection, I used Don Melton’s library. Don originally started the Safari and Webkit project at Apple but after he retired, he spent some significant time trying to create an easy way of compressing video but resting quality. Great collection of tools in my opinion that leverage handbrake for encoding. Good luck!
-
Best Handbrake settings for 4K Blu-ray?
Check out https://github.com/donmelton/video_transcoding
-
Rplexs Moronic Mondays No Stupid Questions Thread
I've been using Don Melton's Video Transcoding tool for my whole library. I upgraded my NAS to a Synology DS1019+ a few months ago, so now I have the space to store the untranscoded MakeMKV files. I've had issues with playback in my system, so I don't mind manually transcoding.
-
I present to you: The ripper
Check out https://github.com/donmelton/video_transcoding – I use it to turn raw Blu-ray tips from 30+ gigs down to 5-7 with no noticeable loss of quality.
Tdarr
-
Just started homelabbing in an old Raspberry Pi 3B+
You could also use tdarr to automate transcoding as soon as stuff enters your library so that it’s direct playable when you decide to watch it, but I’ve never needed to try it
- Run Tdarr in background without command prompt console like Radarr, Sonarr, etc
-
Error on Windows with Tdarr v2.00.21 and ExifTool
The only place I can find mention of the script is Tdarr_Server is not closing exiftool.exe after use. #423 and tdarr_server.exe crashes often #412
-
11600k - Only able to transcode 1 file at a time at 60FPS. Is this normal?
I've had issues with my 11600k and now 11400 in unraid too. Though it's CPU encoding in my case. See https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr/issues/777 .
-
Setting up Tdarr for multiple nodes with different encoding hardware
So I read through this issue and I have a couple nodes setup, some with QSV and others with NVENC. The respective node capabilities are designated for exactly one of QSV or NVENC.
-
Questions about fibre channel, why is it so cheap? Can I setup Ethernet over fibre channel?
Have a look at Tdarr for distributed transcoding. I have it on a few nodes and it’s been pretty easy on the network.
-
It’s not logging successful transcodes :-(
I have created a feature request in the Tdarr GitHub page; https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr/issues/772
-
Hardware acceleration on old laptop CPU?
You can also use tdarr if you have more than 1 file it can auto transcodes multiple files in a directory all at once. https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr
-
is there a program that can check files for corruption?
or this: https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr
- Issue with cache folder
What are some alternatives?
Streamio FFMPEG - Simple yet powerful ruby ffmpeg wrapper for reading metadata and transcoding movies
HandBrake - HandBrake's main development repository
jellyfin-expo - Jellyfin Mobile for iOS
automatic-ripping-machine - Automatic Ripping Machine (ARM) Scripts
sickbeard_mp4_automator - Automatically convert video files to a standardized format with metadata tagging to create a beautiful and uniform media library
makemkv-autorip-script - A bash script for automatically ripping movies using MakeMKV, with parallelization for multiple drives.
Tdarr_Plugins - Tdarr Plugins
node-makemkv - Web UI for MakeMKV
Plex-scripts - Plex, the arr's and tautulli scripts coming from user requests
PhotoPrism - AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨
Plex-Meta-Manager - Python script to update metadata information for items in plex as well as automatically build collections and playlists. The Wiki Documentation is linked below.