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lisamelton / other_video_transcoding

Other tools to transcode videos.
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Issue with "scanning media failed" #21

Closed kjkurtz closed 4 years ago

kjkurtz commented 4 years ago

Hi there! Thanks so much for providing such quality tools to the community.

This is my first time with other_video_transcoding, having used video_transcoding for quite some time.

I'm running into an issue running this on a mac. Here is what I'm getting from the debug output:

Trying "h264_videotoolbox" video encoder...
Scanning media...
{

}
/usr/local/bin/other-transcode: scanning media failed: /Volumes/data/Movies/MOVIE_TITLE/

I'm running the command like this: other-transcode /Volumes/data/Movies/MOVIE_TITLE/ --debug

The movie is an image file from MakeMKV if it matters.

I'd appreciate any guidance. Thanks!

lisamelton commented 4 years ago

@kjkurtz Thanks and thanks for using my tools! I'm sorry you're having this problem.

It looks like you're passing a directory and not an indivitual file to other-transcode as input. That won't work.

If you used MakeMKV, did you choose "Backup" instead of "Save selected titles" from the toolbar? If so, then output from MakeMKV will be a disc directory image which can't be passed to other-transcode.

You need to use MakeMKV to save an individual playlist as a standalone .mkv file from the disc you're ripping.

Does that make sense?

kjkurtz commented 4 years ago

Hi @donmelton,

Thanks for the quick reply! Yes, I was indeed using a directory as a result of a "Backup". Did the old video_transcoding toolset handle directories? I feel like that is how I did it there, but it has been awhile.

I re-ripped the movie to a .mkv and we appear to be smooth sailing now.

As a result of the way this worked, is there no way to use other-transcode against a DVD directly, you have to use something like MakeMKV first?

Thanks so much!

lisamelton commented 4 years ago

@kjkurtz My apologies for taking so long to reply. I've been AFK all day.

You are very welcome and I'm glad that recommendation worked for you.

The reason that transcode-video can use a disc image directory as input is because HandBrakeCLI, on which it is based, has that capability. The ffmpeg tool, on which other-transcode is based, does not.

However, while using a disc image directory as input sounds powerful, there are many limitations with transcoding that way. You are much better off ripping your videos to single, standalone .mkv files.

I'll close this issue now, but feel free to continue commenting.