BrianDMG/conv2mp4

📋 Changes

• webUI is now responsive, and readable on large or small screens
• Added current configuration section
• Added ability to check for updates
• Will unobtrusively notify in both the log output and the webUI
• Notifications can be disabled in configuration (see new config template in files/cfg/config.yaml)
• Fixed a bug where apostrophes and certain grave accents were being interpreted as single quotes, causing files whose names contained those characters to be reported as corrupt

📋 Changes

• New features in v5.0.0:
• Docker container
• WebUI for monitoring
• Schedule script executions with cron syntax
• Persistent usage statistics (over time)
• Split logging for easier readability
• Log rotation
• Bug fixes

📋 Changes

• Improved metadata parsing
• Bug fixes
• Closes #67
• Closes #68
• Closes #70

📋 Changes

• Fixed minor issue where failover threhold percentage was not being dynamically generated, leading to possibly incorrect messaging in the console and log.

📋 Changes

• Closes #58
• Using out_path now preserves media_path directory structure in the out_path.
• Using out_path will now delete empty directories in the media_path, but will not delete the media_path itself (this avoids leaving behind a bunch of empty directories for files that were successfully converted and moved to out_path). This will leave directories containing failed conversions or corrupt files untouched in media_path for manual troubleshooting.
• The out_path directory is now validated in the pre-flight script, with proper error logging.

📋 Changes

• Fixed bug with forced stereo audio track cloning (#54)
• Improved metadata title parsing
• Plex library no longer refreshes on "compliant mp4" condition, should save some CPU cycles
• Moov atom now always moved to the beginning of the file for quicker streaming (*more info can be found @ https://www.adobe.com/devnet/video/articles/mp4_movie_atom.html for the curious*)
• Fixed progress bar counter during interactive file discovery process
• Various minor code improvements

📦 Release v4.0

• Release v4.0 is a major code overhaul that introduces the following new features and improvements:

✨ New features

• Ignore list: shortens time required to find new files on script execution by excluding files the script has already successfully processed
• Clone audio to stereo track: Addresses #42 - when enabled, will create a stereo copy of any non-stereo audio tracks for each file for playback on stereo systems (while retaining the original audio track)
• Metadata title: Sets the file's metadata title to the filename (helps with Plex matching) [thanks to @djgrijalva]
• User-defined failover threshold: User can now define the failover threshold to any desired percentage (Addresses #38)
• Failed encoding reporting: List files that failed to encode (even after failover) in the log
• Corrupt file reporting: List corrupt files in the log (files with either corrupt video or audio codecs)

📦 Improvements

• Configuration: Configuration is now set by the user in a plain text file
• Code enhancement: Code is now modular, increasing readability and ease of adding new features
• Portability: Pulling the latest version of the code will not overwrite or otherwise change any user settings in the config file
• Validation: All user-defined settings in the config file are validated prior to the script executing. Any errors will cause the script to log a relevant message and exit.
• Timekeeping: Fixed various issues with timekeeping in the script, resulting in more accurate statistics
• Best practices: Various changes to conform to Powershell best practices

📋 Changes

• New method of calculating per-encode and cumulative disk usage change
• Calculated values are more accurate now - using a 1024 base
• Closes issue #27
• Removed unnecessary whitespace

📋 Changes

• Addressed Issue #19 : Added a toggle for Plex features so it can be
• Addressed Issue #22 : Special characters in file names are ignored and
• Added a description for each ffmpeg and HandbrakeCLI argument within
• Since an option was added to the cfg file, make sure you don't delete

📋 Changes

• Feature: Script and configuration are now separate. This allows for
• Feature: New option to enable/disable keeping subtitles. (*addressed
• Feature: New option to allow for a separate output path. (*feature
• Behavior: Script now explicitly deletes MKVs when an identical MP4 (*same
• Behavior: When run manually, script gives live update of how many files have been

📋 Changes

• Addressed issue #10 - "Request - Queuing" - If script is already

📋 Changes

• New functionality including an interactive configuration utility that tests user input to ensure variables are valid
• Variables now stored in configuration file so the user never has to directly edit any script
• Configuration file can still be edited manually

📋 Changes

• New feature - Added switch to allow the user to decide whether new session logs overwrite old session logs or are appended to old session logs (issue #5).
• Fixed issue #6 - Fixed an error where the correct file size for new files generated after a Handbrake encode was not being properly reported, causing Handbrake encoded files to be deleted regardless of success or failure.

📋 Changes

• Added test to ensure user-defined paths are valid, with friendly
• Added check for file sizes to allow for representing sizes as KB, MB,
• Implemented error handling that should prevent data loss due to source
• Improved exception handling to allow the script to fail gracefully

📋 Changes

• Script now retains all audio and subtitle channels with both ffmpeg and Handbrake
• Handbrake failover settings tweaked - now finishes in a sane amount of time with little noticeable quality loss
• Script now double checks whether the source file was deleted, and if not tries to delete it again
• Added .ts files to the default list of filetype extensions

📋 Changes

• Handbrake failover forces x264 v4.0 for increased compatibility with streaming clients (thanks for the suggestion /u/SwiftPanda16)
• Plex library refresh no longer opens a browser (thanks to /u/Plonqor)

📦 Release v1.2

• Grouped all user-defined variables at the beginning of the script for ease of use
• Fixed timestamp refresh issue in log
• Added size difference (in MB) between the old file and the newly converted file in log
• Added functionality to fail over to Handbrake encoding when an ffmpeg conversion fails
• Added user instructions in comments