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    I have tons of .mov files in my folder hierarchy that just take too much disk space so I systematically search for the largest ones and and using WinFF convert them to .mp4. Now this works great except for some hiccups like after each conversion I get an error message window asking to send a report to Microsoft which I need to act on so the conversion continues to the next file. I can deal with that since it's never been large amount of files before. Does anyone know of any converter that will allow me to import all my .mov files and convert them to mp4 to their original locations?
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    You can use TEncoder. Add files then check "Same as source" check button. If you have a multi-core CPU, encoding will be lot faster with TEncoder.
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    I'll give it a try. Many thanks BTW would you know if it accepts ffmpeg commands in a manual way? I can't see it anywhere in the GUI and the PROFILES file doesn't look much ffmpegy either

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    Silly me just found the Custom Args button that's right in the main interface. lol
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    Works perfectly. Verry happy. Would love to buy you a beer but not sure if you drink alcohol in Turkey
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    Originally Posted by Yaro View Post
    Works perfectly. Verry happy. Would love to buy you a beer but not sure if you drink alcohol in Turkey
    You bet we drink beer in Turkey!

    Glad it worked for you.
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    Just found one problem. When I encode a batch of files and for some reason the encoding gets stuck on something I see no way of skipping the problematic file. The task manager shows me that ffmpeg does something with CPU but if I kill the process I won't see which files were converted and which were not.

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    Actually I risked to kill ffmpeg and the encoder just moved one to the next file in my list. That's might be a way of implementing skipping corrupted files
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    Probably FFMpeg produced lots of console outputs (there might be something wrong with source file or your settings). Sending log might help.
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    I didn't keep the log I'm afraid but I run that file through WinFF and it got converted in the end. Thanks for your willingness to help
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    Sorry to be a pain but still converting and having difficulties. Every now and then the conversion stops. The CPU still shows as active although nowhere as close as when there is a progress. Just thought it would be nice if TEncoder could detect lack of progress when converting and just kill ffmpeg process when this occurs. When I kill it manually it nicely moves on to the next job but doing it this way doesn't produce any indication in the log as to which jobs failed.
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    Hello,

    If you can succesfully close TEncoder after encoding or failed-encoding, please replace your TEncoder.exe with that one. Making a backup of yours might be a good idea.

    After an encode, close TEncoder and re-open it. Click to the button next to the "Export to script"which has a folder graph on it. When your scripts folder opens, go one folder level up (opened folder is ...\VC\Scripts go to VC folder). There must be Encoder1.txt ... Encoder8.txt, send these files to me, they are auto-created encoder logs. You can also send me samples if you know where encoding gets stuck.

    PS if you cant open that 7zip file, you might want to update your Winrar or archive program. Or i can send you a zip file.
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    What I meant is that the encoding happilly continues when I kill ffmpeg via task manager. This doesn't kill TEncoder it only kills the conversion that it's processing at that moment. When done TEncoder moves on to the next file and opens another ffmpeg instance. If there is more files it just keeps going till it finds a problem. To find which conversions faild I opened the log in notepad and searched for a string which always shows up before the encoding starts "Press [q] to stop, [?] for help" and then by going Find Next I'm looking for an occurance when after that line I cannot see multiple lines indicating conversion in progress. When found, I know this particular file failed.

    To convert I set TEncoder to use H264, Common Sizes - Original, FPS -Same as source, Output Path - Same as Source, Custom Args:
    -crf 20.0 -vcodec libx264 -coder 1 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me_method hex -subq 6 -me_range 16 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -b_strategy 1 -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 0 -qmax 69 -qdiff 4 -bf 8 -refs 16 -direct-pred 3 -trellis 2 -wpredp 2 -rc_lookahead 60
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