Use Video Redo?

psychonaut · **14th February 2006, 02:54 PM**

Hello Arkay and thankyou for all you work.

My question for you is I am having trouble using Crunchie because I am using roll up 2 (no Audio on some channels). I have tried the work around with the new .dll file but Crunchie would halt on an error within DVRToolbox. Is it possible to have crunchie use Video Redo instead of DVRtoolbox?

Im now doing this and it seems to be working after a bit of playing around...

Using D/cut to edit the adverts out then D/cut dumps it to folder called To Be Encoded.

Running a batch script the converts the DVR-MS files in this folder to Mpeg using Video Redo automatically.

Scheduled Crunchie to run every night in Mpeg only mode.

So far this seems to be working with no problems.

Is it possible in the next version of Crunchie having the option of using Video Redo or DVRtoolbox?

If anyone is interested the script I used to for Video Redo to convert to Mpeg ...

Get this file, unzip it and put it in your Video Redo installation directory
http://www.jackelectronics.f2s.com/c...bws/index.html

*** Direct Link removed at Jackelectronics request ***

create a .bat file and add
FOR %%1 IN (*.dvr-ms) DO cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\VideoReDo.vbs" "D:\Recorded TV\%%1" /q

Save it as video redo.bat or whatever you like in the folder where your DVR-MS files are

* Add the directory where you store your DVR-MS files. Change the E:\Tv Shows bit.

I then schedule the video redo.bat file to run at 11pm followed by Crunchie at 11.30pm.

So far it seems to work. I'm on my last few days of the trial period for Video Redo and I think i'll buy it as this way seems to automate to process nicely.

EDIT : Had posted an error in the script.. twice

arkay · **14th February 2006, 03:25 PM**

Hiya,

It's certainly an option. I wasn't aware that videoredo was scriptable.

I might even take Crunchie back to an mpeg only converter but have an option to pre-run a batch script that does the conversion from dvr-ms. That way all I'll need do is supply a specific batch script for whatever method is used to do the conversion. It's less integrated this way but provides more options as I think we'll always have trouble converting dvr-ms given it's a closed and "open to modification by the owner" format.

Definately food for thought.

Cheers,
Arkay.

jackelectronics · **22nd February 2006, 09:42 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by psychonaut

Get this file, unzip it and put it in your Video Redo installation directory

*edit*
http://www.jackelectronics.f2s.com/c...bws/index.html
*edit*

create a .bat file and add
FOR %%1 IN (*.dvr-ms) DO cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\AdScan.vbs" "D:\Recorded TV\%%1" /q
EDIT : Had posted an error in the script

I have checked my web stats this morning and I have found that you have linked directly to my VideoReDo script file without permission and I find this kind of behaviour inpolite. You may want to link to my main DVB Web Scheduler Page at http://www.jackelectronics.f2s.com/c...bws/index.html but NOT directly to the zip file.

jackelectronics · **22nd February 2006, 10:10 PM**

Thank you for changing the link.

The script that I have written will not work because I have seen no references of it being used in the .bat file.

This is how I believe it should look:
FOR %%1 IN (*.dvr-ms) DO cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\VideoReDo.vbs" "D:\Recorded TV\%%1" /q

The script is primarilly designed to convert captures into stable and playable MPEG formats with harmful errors removed. It does not automatically remove advertisements as I prefer to do this myself in case it detects the main program as commercials!

psychonaut · **22nd February 2006, 10:35 PM**

Sorry mate. Didn't mean to offend.