Remuxer + encoder with watch folders?

[Poptartica]

Hey guys.. if anyone could point me in the right direction for something like this, I'd be very grateful! I've been looking around and experimenting with different things but I haven't found anything that fits the bill quite fully for my specific situation/needs.

What I'm looking for is a program that has the ability to:

1. Remux/switch containers for MKV->MP4 files (h264),
2. Watch folders and perform its functions on files placed there, then output them to a different folder,
3. Is available on Windows OR Linux,
*4. Can re-attempt processing a file with a different set of rules (will re-encode rather than stream copy on 2nd attempt) if any errors were encountered during the process.

#4 is more of a long shot wish since I haven't seen anything do that (yet!).

I've been using MKVtoMP4 and it's an awesome program, the only thing keeping me from using it fulltime is the watch folder thing really. I am aware that there is a Watch Folder program for Handbrake (and I also have adobe media encoder as well, which does that function pretty smoothly), which is very handy, but I was really trying to find a program that has the ability to copy the streams into a new container when that is an option.

Any suggestions would be great..!

[Selur]

Hybrid can at least fulfill 1.-3. (didn't quite get point 4., so not sure about that), assuming it is setup properly.
(implemented the folder monitoring two years or so ago)
Read http://forum.selur.de/topic223-tip-add-webui-or-hybrid-remote-control.html to understand how to setup Hybrid to monitor a specific folder and automatically convert newly added files.

[Poptartica]

Hybrid can at least fulfill 1.-3. (didn't quite get point 4., so not sure about that), assuming it is setup properly.
(implemented the folder monitoring two years or so ago)
Read http://forum.selur.de/topic223-tip-add-webui-or-hybrid-remote-control.html to understand how to setup Hybrid to monitor a specific folder and automatically convert newly added files.

Hi- this looks very promising! Thank you!

I've set up the global profile, and created the misc.ini file. I haven't gotten it to work yet, but I think I may have some setting wrong..

For the source folder, I set the location to a network share. So, that line looks like this:

monitorFolder="\\192.168.xxx.xxx\MyFolder"

Also, I placed the misc.ini file in the main Hybrid directory (which is C:\Program Files\Hybrid for me), is this where it is supposed to go?

Are there any other specific hangups I might want to double check to be sure it's set correctly?

Thanks again for your help!!

[Selur]

You will have to mount your network share to a drive letter.
(a bunch of tools which Hybrid uses don't support the way Windows specified network shares, which is why Hybrid doesn't support it)

Also, I placed the misc.ini file in the main Hybrid directory (which is C:\Program Files\Hybrid for me), is this where it is supposed to go?

Yes, that is a valid location on Windows systems.

Are there any other specific hangups I might want to double check to be sure it's set correctly?

Check that "Hybrid->Path->Infos->Monitoring path" shows your folder, make sure that your global profile has the default output path setup and that you enabled 'Generate'.

[Poptartica]

You will have to mount your network share to a drive letter.
(a bunch of tools which Hybrid uses don't support the way Windows specified network shares, which is why Hybrid doesn't support it)

Also, I placed the misc.ini file in the main Hybrid directory (which is C:\Program Files\Hybrid for me), is this where it is supposed to go?

Yes, that is a valid location on Windows systems.

Are there any other specific hangups I might want to double check to be sure it's set correctly?

Check that "Hybrid->Path->Infos->Monitoring path" shows your folder, make sure that your global profile has the default output path setup and that you enabled 'Generate'.

I mapped my drive to M:/ and am now referencing it that way, though.. it seems like it might not be loading the .ini file.. I have a Windows 8.1 system so I'm not sure if it's a permission problem. The global profile isn't selected and the area under "Infos" displays "Monitoring Path: " as blank. I've tried to start it both by adding -autoadd true to the target path, and also by launching it via the command prompt in this way. Sorry if I'm missing something very simple! I appreciate you taking the time.

[Selur]

Lol, just relized I made a typo in one of my refactoring cleanups.

your misc.ini should look like:

[General]
monitorFolder="E:\\Incoming"

backslash needs to be escaped

and Hybrid needs to be started with:

Hybrid -autoAdd addStart

(next release will again use 'addAndStart')

Sorry, for that.

[Poptartica]

Lol, just relized I made a typo in one of my refactoring cleanups.

your misc.ini should look like:

[General]
monitorFolder="E:\\Incoming"

backslash needs to be escaped

and Hybrid needs to be started with:

Hybrid -autoAdd addStart

(next release will again use 'addAndStart')

Sorry, for that.

Great, it's loading the file, profile, and watch folder setting now! It looks like it loads everything according to the profile except the selection for the video handling - in my profile, I have video handling set to passthrough, but when I launch Hybrid with the watch folder options the video handling shows as set to "ignore" for all of the files I've tried so far instead. Also, whenever I place a file (I've tried a few MKVs which are set to passthrough to MP4) into the watch folder, once I load up Hybrid, it picks up the files immediately just fine.. but then it will pop up an error saying "selectContainer 0 was called too early!" and doesn't go further. Anything else I might have missed?

[Selur]

Can't test here myself (on a family visit for today and tomorrow) + would need a debug output (see: http://www.selur.de/support) to diagnose the problem.

[Poptartica]

Can't test here myself (on a family visit for today and tomorrow) + would need a debug output (see: http://www.selur.de/support) to diagnose the problem.

Hmm... well I've updated it to make sure it's on the latest version and now what I was doing before won't load the misc.ini file, also tried 'addAndStart' but no luck there (checked just to be sure). My version number says it's on 2015.04.25.1 even though I tried to install 2015.5.1.1

[Selur]

The version number thing was a cosmetic bug, fixed the download on my site. (forgot to update the version info for the Win64 version)

Strange thing is, I always used the the latest version.
What does your misc.ini file look like?

[Poptartica]

The version number thing was a cosmetic bug, fixed the download on my site. (forgot to update the version info for the Win64 version)

Strange thing is, I always used the the latest version.
What does your misc.ini file look like?

I downloaded the version with the updated version number just to be sure we were on the same one

My misc.ini file looks like this:

[General]
monitorFolder="M:\\Pretranscode"
globalProfile="C:\\Users\\(Username)\\AppData\\Roa ming\\hybrid\\profiles\\global\\MKVtoMP4.xml"

M is the network share, which I have mapped as the drive M. Dunno what I changed between the first time I got it to load and now

Once I can get my profile loaded I'll see if I can get the same error again and I'll try to get a debug log if it happens

(also, for some reason the forum formatting keeps adding a space in "Roaming".. or at least appears to, but the actual misc.ini file doesn't have that, the path spells Roaming correctly)

[Selur]

Will look into it once I'm back from work today.

[Selur]

Regarding the global profile:
Have you tried simply using:

globalProfile="MKVtoMP4"

?

Cu Selur