Purpose

The purpose of this program is to automate the task of processing recorded shows. The program takes either an MPEG-2 (MPG) or Transport Stream (TS) as input. This programs schedules and runs the following programs to perform it's work. Download and view the documentation for more information.

Required Programs

beyond tv

Copyright Snapstream Media, http://www.snapstream.com/, cost ~ $100

Beyond TV gives you the capability to turn your PC into a digital video recorder (DVR). Its simple user-friendly interface lets you browse your TV listings, record shows, and watch live TV from your PC with no subscription fees, ever!

VideoReDo Plus

Copyright DRD Systems, Inc., http://www.videoredo.com/, cost ~$50

VideoReDo Plus eliminates the quality and performance limitations of typical video editors by quickly editing in Native MPEG (smart rendering), changing only the few frames you change. So you experience a fast, easy, high quality result.

BTV Command Line Tools

Open source by psionic, http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?p=305011, freeware

Included utilities:

• BTVMetaData - Allows you to extract or import the metadata from BTV recordings
• StreamSnip - Allows you to initiate a streamsnip job on an HD recording from the command line without knowing the recording's major and minor channels or the correct stream information.
• BeyondTVLibrary.dll - Dawonderer's great library with helpful updates from Fonceur.

Optional Programs

Comskip

by Michel Lespinasse and Aaron Holtzman, http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/, freeware

Comskip is a free mpeg commercial detector. It is a windows console application that reads a mpeg file and analyses the content based on a large amount of configurable parameters. After analysis it generates a file in various possible formats containing the location of the commercials inside the mpeg file. The formats include input files for Personal Video applications like SageTV or GBPVR, interactive video editors (VideoRedo, Cuttermaran,Mpeg2Schnitt...) command line video cutters (mpgtx, cuttermaran, mencoder) and video players (zoomplayer, mplayer, ...). Comskip can read MPEG and h.264 video and MPEG2, AC3 and AAC audio from PS , TS and dvr-ms files upto HD resolution (max 2000x1200) at 25fps (PAL) and 29.97fps (NTSC).

AutoGK

By len0x, http://www.autogk.me.uk/, freeware

Program features support of:

• DVD/VOBs(unencrypted from hdd), MPEG2, MPEG1, transport streams (including multi-program ones) and AVI/DV input sources
• XviD or DivX(5/6) output formats
• AC3, DTS, PCM, MPA input audio tracks
• AC3, DTS, MPA, CBR/VBR MP3 output audio tracks
• two audio tracks in AVI
• external (vobsub) or internal (burnt-in) subtitles (with support of forced subs)
• HDTV input/output resolutions(upto 1920x) and frame rates (50/60fps)
• automatic crop and resize based on compressibility of the source to achieve best results
• automatic detection of input source: PAL, NTSC, FILM, HYBRID
• automatic deinterlacer and IVTC
• automatic split into CD-sized chunks for main video and external subs

MediaInfo (DLL)

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/, freeware What information can I get from MediaInfo?

• General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
• Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
• Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
• Text: language of subtitle
• Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters
• DivX, XviD, H263, H.263, H264, x264, ASP, AVC, iTunes, MPEG-1, MPEG1, MPEG-2, MPEG2, MPEG-4, MPEG4, MP4, M4A, M4V, QuickTime, RealVideo, RealAudio, RA, RM, MSMPEG4v1, MSMPEG4v2, MSMPEG4v3, VOB, DVD, WMA, VMW, ASF, 3GP, 3GPP, 3GP2

• Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...
• (Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...)
• Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...
• Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...
• multiplexer, demuxer, mixer, muxer, video decoder, audio decoder, PAL, NTSC

• Read many video and audio file formats
• Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
• You can customise these views
• Exporting information as text, CSV, HTML...
• Graphical Interface, Command Line, or DLL
• Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag 'n' drop, and Context menu)
• Internationalisation: Any language display on any version of your operating system
• Localisation capability (but volunteers needed)

HandBrake

http://handbrake.fr/, freeware HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Supported sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
• Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

• File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
• Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
• Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

TheTVDB.com

http://thetvdb.com/, free This site is an open database that can be modified by anybody. All content and images on the site have been contributed by our users. The database schema and website are open source under the GPL, and are available at Sourceforge.

This site also has a full XML API that allows other software and websites to use this information. The API is currently being used by the myTV add-in for Windows Media Center, XBMC (formerly XBox Media Center); the meeTVshows and TVNight plugins for Meedio; the MP-TVSeries plugin for MediaPortal; Boxee; and many more.

Disclaimers

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.