[Q&A] Question about Completely automated release

[Middlepepper]

Hi IONI0,

Love the scripts and the releases, but was curious about the automation you use to create the SubsPlus+ Releases.

Are you looking to share/opensource those in future as well?

[IONI0]

Thanks. Which part of the automation are you interested about? I might write up an explanation of the whole thing eventually but generally there’s:

• Applying subtitle enhancements
• Syncing subs and audio between different sources
• Prepping episode and muxing everything
• Uploading to seedbox and trackers
• Making batches

Everything currently gets activated from sonarr custom scripts. I’ll try getting everything up to making a fully muxed release up on GitHub step by step but it’ll be a while because I designed it for personal use with quite messy code that’ll have to be cleaned up.

[Middlepepper]

Thanks for the response, I would love a write up of the whole process happy to help with proof reading or review if it assists.

I'm curious about the order you run the scripts in i.e (auto_Chapter then Chapter_Snapper etc) and the process you used to grab and upload the releases as fully automated ecosystem as it seen like a neat process. The uploads you do have some nice QOL updates that I wanted to repurpose on my shows that don't have them so I wanted to see about adding them into my setup if I have a show without Chapter or as a clean up measure.

[IONI0]

This skips a few intricacies likes dubs and special cases but it currently goes:

• Sonarr grabs erai-raws hidive release
• mkvmerge to incoming.mkv to sort track order (Erai had it weirdly ordered)
• MKV_OnTime.py (Fix matrotska delay)
• Extract subs
• Restyler.py
• Rescale_Captions.py (Erai has their signs too big so make it smaller)
• Hidive_Splitter.py
• P-Proper_Stutter.py
• Regex_Stuff.py
• Generate keyframes with SCXvid standalone
• TPP with a custom version of prass that fixes and adds a few things
• Sign_DeOverlap.py (Move dialogue to top if it is overlapping a sign)
• Overlap_Blue.py
• Style_Cleanup.py
• Move everything to episode working folder
• Call Mux_and_Release.py

For the other source like ADN:

• Another Sonarr instance grabs it based on preferred word score
• Generate keyframes
• Move to episode working folder and generate a linking file to communicate source credits
• Call Mux_and_Release.py

Then in Mux_and_Release.py:

• Apply show settings
• Proceed if Hidive and Other source have been imported
• Run sushi to sync subs
• TPP again to fix overlaps caused by sushi
• Auto_Chap.py
• Chapter_Snapper.py
• Sync audio if necessary with sushi and eac3to
• Add fonts from erai to font collection
• Run font collector
• Mux
• Apply CRC
• Run Font validator
• Generate description
• Subkt create torrent
• Winscp upload to seedbox
• Subkt upload to trackers

Sonarr is not all that great for matching sometimes but I was already using that for my own plex server so I thought I'd just link this stuff on to it. For making chapters, Auto_Chap got updated with its own keyframe generation and snapping which is like 50x faster than generating keyframes for the entire episode and using chapter_snapper so I'd just use that. I set it up to make chapters for every SubsPlease episode imported and it's been pretty good. Feel free to contact me on discord at ionio. if you want any more specifics or help.