Handbreak auto processing tool

Watch for new media files and automatically process them with Handbreak or other transcoding tool

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Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Install all dependencies with the following command: pip install -r requirements.txt

How To Use

The tool exopses two enviorment variables for usage in the provided command or script:

• INPUT_FILE: the current file for processing
• OUTPUT_FILE: the name of the file after processing Example: INPUT_FILE=~/Movies/movie-name.mp4 OUTPUT_FILE=~/Movies/movie-name_transcoded.mp4

Basic usage

handbreak-auto-processing.py \
-w ~/Movies \
-w ~/Shows \
-w ~/Anime \
-c 'HandBrakeCLI --preset x265-10bit --input $INPUT_FILE --output $OUTPUT_FILE'

Pipeline usage(Handbreak & Filebot)

handbreak-auto-processing.py \
-w ~/Movies \
-c 'HandBrakeCLI --preset x265-10bit --input $INPUT_FILE --output $OUTPUT_FILE &&
filebot -rename $OUTPUT_FILE --db anidb -non-strict'

Log files

The main log file of the tool is handbreak-auto-processing.log. For each transcoding task the tool creates a file in the destination directory named after the processing file e.g.: processing file: ~/Movies/movie-name.mp4 processing log file: ~/Movies/movie-name_transcoding.log

Documentation

Option String	Required	Choices	Default	Summary
['-h', '--help']	False	None	N/A	show this help message and exit
['-l', '--list-processing-queue']	False	N/A	False	Lists processing queue and exits
['-n', '--retry-media-file']	False	N/A	False	Change media file state from [failed] to [waiting]
['-a', '--retry-all-media-files']	False	N/A	False	Change all media file states from [failed] to [waiting]
['-p', '--initial-processing']	False	N/A	False	Find and process all files in listed in watch directories(excludes failed media files)
['-r', '--reprocess']	False	N/A	False	Whether to reprocess files already in processing queue with state [processed]
['-w', '--watch-directory']	False	N/A	None	Directory to watch for new media files
['-q', '--queue-directory']	False	N/A	run user home directory	Directory to store processing queue(NOTE: if you're running the tool on more than one machines both running instances of this script should have access to processing queue)
['-i', '--include-pattern']	False	N/A	['.mp4', '.mpg', '.mov', '.mkv', '*.avi']	Include for processing files matching include patterns
['-e', '--exclude-pattern']	False	N/A	None	Exclude for processing files matching include patterns
['-s', '--case-sensitive']	False	N/A	depends on the filesystem	Whether pattern matching should be case sensitive
['-v', '--verbose']	False	N/A	False	Enable verbose log output
['-m', '--max-log-size']	False	N/A	100	Max log size in MB; set to 0 to disable log file rotating
['-k', '--max-log-file-to-keep']	False	N/A	0	Max number of log files to keep
['-c', '--handbreak-command']	False	N/A	None	Handbreak command to execute
['-t', '--handbreak-timeout']	False	N/A	15	Timeout of Handbreak command(hours)
['-f', '--file-extension']	False	N/A	mp4	Output file extension
['-d', '--delete']	False	N/A	False	Delete original file
['-z', '--silent-period']	False	N/A	None	A silent period(the media processing command will be suspended) defined as so: [18:45:20:45]. You can provide multiple periods
['-x', '--rest-api']	False	N/A	False	Enable REST API mapped on port 6767