Convert files from any format to mp4

[smpross]

Hi,
I am using sabnzbd along with Sonarr and Couch potato. I use Plex as my media server. Unfortunately, my plex server is not a very powerful server and it has trouble with Transcoding the video to my Roku3. I am wondering if a post processing script that could convert the format, container and audio would be helpful. Does such a script exist? Can someone point me to it?

Thanks

Scott

[Groovy]

Hello,

I'm also interested in this. I want to post-process every file into mkv or mp4 from a specific category. How do you guys achieve this?

Greetings

[Bizzarro]

I would start here and see if this meets your needs...

I realize that it is on the PLEX forum but the script should work on any files you have downloaded.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/ ... utomation/

[shpankey]

another one (variation of that one) here...

https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/13130 ... tricks/p29

[pgdownload]

You could set sonar to just download the SD versions of the shows you are interested in?

Another option could be something like a QNAP which has auto and on the fly transcoding built in. You download your movies and then the QNAP will watch the folders and create new files with quality settings you want.

See it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7071ASspPo

Regards

Peter Gillespie

[goblix]

transcoding can get a bit hairy on underpowered NAS systems and PLEX from my experience pegs the my synology NAS cpu when transcoding on 1080p

if you want to run conversions then I'd say run a post script after file downloads. I'm messing around with that atm using mkvmerge on BDMV format to convert it into an mkv. So that is always an option if you want to get down and dirty with scripting and tweaking a few things. That said the links that @bizzarro and @shpankey linked are probably better solutions.

Nevertheless there's always a solution