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randyharris wrote: Currently my script is geared towards AppleTV, so an MKV with DTS is converted to an MKV with AC3, then transcoded for AppleTV. If I understand you would want to be able to go from MKV with DTS to either MKV with AC3 or MKV with Stereo?

The choice of Stereo or AC3 would be something I'd have to bake in from the get go, but in general this sort of custom settings is exactly what I'm talking about in a re-design that makes it more open to any platform, not just specific to iTunes supported devices.

I really need help from you guys for settings though for other devices, I don't have an Xbox or PS3 and don't have the knowledge or interest in looking into it. Do you play full res video on those devices as you download it, whether it be 720 or 1080? I don't get why anybody would want stereo when you could have AC3?

wokavan wrote:

randyharris wrote: Currently my script is geared towards AppleTV, so an MKV with DTS is converted to an MKV with AC3, then transcoded for AppleTV. If I understand you would want to be able to go from MKV with DTS to either MKV with AC3 or MKV with Stereo?

The choice of Stereo or AC3 would be something I'd have to bake in from the get go, but in general this sort of custom settings is exactly what I'm talking about in a re-design that makes it more open to any platform, not just specific to iTunes supported devices.

I really need help from you guys for settings though for other devices, I don't have an Xbox or PS3 and don't have the knowledge or interest in looking into it. Do you play full res video on those devices as you download it, whether it be 720 or 1080? I don't get why anybody would want stereo when you could have AC3?

Thanks for the quick response! It's actually not that I'm looking for the ability to use Stereo instead of AC3 (the PS3 supports AC3 in MP4s and while the xbox 360 doesn't support it natively, there are programs that will perform on-the-fly down-sampling to stereo while streaming to it). It's more that I'm curious as to why your script performs a full video conversion of MKVs when, from my understanding, it could possibly be passing-through the video instead since the original video stream in an MKV is an mp4 compatible h264 video. I imagine it has to do with the overall complexity of the script and the amount of fail-safes that you've included, though it still seems like if you're going from a 720p MKV to a 720p mp4(or m4v) having the script quickly pass-through the video would be ideal since it only takes 5 minutes or less compared to the much longer full conversion process.

Again, I imagine I'm just completely missing something, so I appreciate you taking the time to listen to my gibberish . Thanks!

randyharris wrote:

wokavan wrote:

randyharris wrote: Currently my script is geared towards AppleTV, so an MKV with DTS is converted to an MKV with AC3, then transcoded for AppleTV. If I understand you would want to be able to go from MKV with DTS to either MKV with AC3 or MKV with Stereo?

The choice of Stereo or AC3 would be something I'd have to bake in from the get go, but in general this sort of custom settings is exactly what I'm talking about in a re-design that makes it more open to any platform, not just specific to iTunes supported devices.

I really need help from you guys for settings though for other devices, I don't have an Xbox or PS3 and don't have the knowledge or interest in looking into it. Do you play full res video on those devices as you download it, whether it be 720 or 1080? I don't get why anybody would want stereo when you could have AC3?

Thanks for the quick response! It's actually not that I'm looking for the ability to use Stereo instead of AC3 (the PS3 supports AC3 in MP4s and while the xbox 360 doesn't support it natively, there are programs that will perform on-the-fly down-sampling to stereo while streaming to it). It's more that I'm curious as to why your script performs a full video conversion of MKVs when, from my understanding, it could possibly be passing-through the video instead since the original video stream in an MKV is an mp4 compatible h264 video. I imagine it has to do with the overall complexity of the script and the amount of fail-safes that you've included, though it still seems like if you're going from a 720p MKV to a 720p mp4(or m4v) having the script quickly pass-through the video would be ideal since it only takes 5 minutes or less compared to the much longer full conversion process.

Again, I imagine I'm just completely missing something, so I appreciate you taking the time to listen to my gibberish . Thanks!

I convert from the MKV to M4V because AppleTV doesn't play MKV's.

gazzzmoly wrote:

randyharris wrote:

wokavan wrote: Thanks for the quick response! It's actually not that I'm looking for the ability to use Stereo instead of AC3 (the PS3 supports AC3 in MP4s and while the xbox 360 doesn't support it natively, there are programs that will perform on-the-fly down-sampling to stereo while streaming to it). It's more that I'm curious as to why your script performs a full video conversion of MKVs when, from my understanding, it could possibly be passing-through the video instead since the original video stream in an MKV is an mp4 compatible h264 video. I imagine it has to do with the overall complexity of the script and the amount of fail-safes that you've included, though it still seems like if you're going from a 720p MKV to a 720p mp4(or m4v) having the script quickly pass-through the video would be ideal since it only takes 5 minutes or less compared to the much longer full conversion process.

Again, I imagine I'm just completely missing something, so I appreciate you taking the time to listen to my gibberish . Thanks!

I convert from the MKV to M4V because AppleTV doesn't play MKV's.

no it doesnt but it will play a remuxed .mkv


ie    start with an mkv   you extract the video  and audio   leave the video alone and convert the audio and then put both together in the mp4 container      you would also need to change the profile header to 3.1 also    to play on the apple tv    but the ps3 can stay 4.1

gazzzmoly wrote: sorry   your right........     although  i have never cme across an mkv   that has not had .h264/x.264

gazzzmoly wrote: what do you mean?

gazzzmoly wrote: what do you mean?

gazzzmoly wrote: http://manuals.playstation.net/document ... types.html

randyharris wrote:

gazzzmoly wrote: http://manuals.playstation.net/document ... types.html

Here's my problem with that list, how do I test the video types to make sure they fall into the correct specifications on that page? And I don't see MKV listed.

wokavan wrote:

randyharris wrote:

gazzzmoly wrote: http://manuals.playstation.net/document ... types.html

Here's my problem with that list, how do I test the video types to make sure they fall into the correct specifications on that page? And I don't see MKV listed.

Thanks for the help, I actually wasn't trying to ask for anything as involved as a whole script alternative. I was thinking of the possibility of just creating one specific category modifier that the script could pick up on (like you currently have modifiers such as"tv 720p iphone", perhaps it's a new modifier like "tv 720p mkvh264src") and then use the quicker transcoding method for a 720p MKV h264 source to 720p M4V destination. The main reason I was requesting such a feature was that 90% of the files I grab from usenet are 720p MKV tv shows and I'd love for them all to get sucked into iTunes properly tagged like your script accomplishes, and I thought perhaps there was a way to achieve this without the 1 - 2 hour full conversion for this particular file type. I realize your script does oodles more than this and it's setup to process the whole spectrum of video file types and creating something for such a specific use-case is pretty selfish of me, but I figured I'd ask anyway .

Thanks again for all your help.