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Tdarr - Distributed transcode automation using FFmpeg/HandBrake + Audio/Video library analytics + video health checking (Windows, macOS, Linux & Docker)
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Remux container for specific file #649

Closed Kazz3r24 closed 2 years ago

Kazz3r24 commented 2 years ago

I'm loving what I'm seeing so far, but I don't really intend on using this as a "fire and forget" tool and instead going to be far more strict and specific with which files are getting touched.

I have a Dolby Vision/HDR10 file that has all of the specifics I am looking for, except it's in an m2ts container so the DV isn't being seen in Plex. All I want to do is remux the container to mkv so it's seen properly in Plex. So far, I've scanned in my 4K movies which went fine and I've been tinkering with plugins etc - got one that specifically remuxes the container and got the autoscan plugin for good measure (I use autoscan too).

Now if I only want to remux the container for this file to mkv; should I set my transcode options for my 4K library to just use the remux container plugin, then queue that file for transcoding? Or am I going about this completely wrong?

All of the documentation I've seen is for configuring Tdarr essentially as fire and forget, which I don't want.

Thank you in advance!

supersnellehenk commented 2 years ago

For a single file it would be easier to just grab ffmpeg and run it from the CLI. Tdarr isn't designed to run on a single file.

If you want to use Tdarr, you'd have to create a directory with just that file in it.

Also, ffmpeg 4 which Tdarr still uses unless you're using the development containers will destroy the dolby vision metadata.

Kazz3r24 commented 2 years ago

Yeah, I was seeing comments about that while I was researching. I did try searching for a way to just use ffmpeg in cli but couldn't figure out if certain arguments needed to be used for dolby vision.

Thank you for the quick response! Back to the drawing board! :)

supersnellehenk commented 2 years ago

You don't need anything specific as far as I know. Just ffmpeg5. All you need to do is ffmpeg -i "inputfile.m2ts" -map 0 -c copy "outputfile.mkv" unless there's something weird with the file.

Kazz3r24 commented 2 years ago

Hmm okay, thank you for that, I'll have to try it. When I was researching I wasn't sure if ffmpeg would take all the DV metadata as well. I've started down the tsmuxer + makemkv rabbit hole - looking into that as well.

I'll try out your command arguments and let you know the result! :)

Cheers