mdhiggins
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3 years ago Not 100% sure what you mean by "name handlers in tags" but the full tagging job is always performed if metadata is available. If the file was already encoded with SMA then things like stream-level metadata (IE stream titles, language etc) should already be correct in which case you're fine to have process-same-extensions set to False.
If you want to rewrite the stream level data, which I guess for old versions before this was implemented may be desired, then you're going to need to temporarily disable Universal Audio. If you want to preserve things exactly as they were then you should also turn off sort-streams or any other options that may filter out your audio channels you've previously created.
In short, there's no simple solution for this specific setup. But if you wanted you could create an alternate configuration file specifically for retagging and disable the features that cause output results to not be what you're looking for, and then when you do the retagging pass just point manual.py to that. That's what I do on my personal setup.
Also be aware the process-same-extension option does have another check that looks to see if the file was previously encoded with SMA (by checking the 'encoder' tag in the source metadata, only mp4 format supported) and will still prevent an FFMPEG pass unless force-convert is turned on as well
dramirvf
I have many videos which have once been processed by SMA (Through Radarr Post-Process), therefore "Universal Audio" is over there. But tagging has not been done properly due to different reasons:
Since the issues are manually discovered after sometime, I don't bother to mess with the configured settings in Radarr and I process above issues manually through running the following command:
python3 manual.py -a -i <Video File> -tmdb <TMDB Number>What is the best AutoProcess.ini setting for such scenarios?
If I set process-same-extensions = False, then I'll lose some information such as name handlers in tags.
If I set process-same-extensions = True, then everything is fine, but I'll end up with having an Extra Audio Stream.
If I remove all codecs from [Universal Audio] to disable Universal Audio to prevent Extra Audio Stream, everything is fine, but Audio Streams are now resorted improperly in the output. For example, all my videos have [Universal Audio] as stream: 0 and [audio] as stream: 1. But after disabling Universal Audio, the order in the output file would be like this: [Universal Audio]--> stream: 1 and [audio]--> stream: 0.
Then I may need to interfere with the "sort-streams", to prevent above issue.
It look like a simple "re-tagging" results in many complications. Is there a less complicated solution to such scenarios which are indeed very common?