Multi-version movies and automatic conversion bug

[TechKnowCase 0]

Hi,

 

A few weeks ago, I renamed all my content according to the convention. I also renamed my moves with the right version (4k/hdr/1080p/x265) at the end.

Here's an example:

/Movies/Fury (2014)/Fury (2014) - 4K x265 HDR.mkv

 

I've also setup to automatically make a low quality x264 copy for devices that doesn't support hevc or for LTE streaming. I used the "Mobile" Profile at 4Mbps

Since then, the conversion took the file but added " -mobile" at the end of it instead of removing whatever is after the Hyphen. Ex:

/Movies/Fury (2014)/Fury (2014) - 4K x265 HDR - mobile.mkv

instead of: /Movies/Fury (2014)/Fury (2014) - mobile.mkv

 

 

Then, it proceeded to also make a copy and transcode the new file. Now my directory looks like this:

/Movies/Fury (2014)/Fury (2014) - 4K x265 HDR.mkv

/Movies/Fury (2014)/Fury (2014) - 4K x265 HDR - mobile.mkv

/Movies/Fury (2014)/Fury (2014) - 4K x265 HDR - mobile - mobile.mkv

/Movies/Fury (2014)/Fury (2014) - 4K x265 HDR - mobile - mobile - mobile.mkv

etc.

 

I'm not sure what I did wrong or what logs you need, let me know and I'll edit this post.

[Carlo 4477]

This is something @Luke needs to take a look at as it's likely thinking the new "-mobile" is a new file and it's processing that again and again vs ignoring any file it has created.

[Luke 38802]

@Happy2Play do you know where the existing topic about this is?

[Happy2Play 9140]

28 minutes ago, Luke said:

@Happy2Play do you know where the existing topic about this is?

Are you referring to this one?

 

[Carlo 4477]

There is also this one that's related but not the same

But I'd think for MULTI-VERSION movies only one of the bunch should get converted but not every member of the group.

Converting each sort of defeats the purpose of multi-version.

[Luke 38802]

@TechKnowCase has this helped?

[TechKnowCase 0]

On 7/29/2020 at 8:06 PM, cayars said:

There is also this one that's related but not the same

But I'd think for MULTI-VERSION movies only one of the bunch should get converted but not every member of the group.

Converting each sort of defeats the purpose of multi-version.

I understand what you're saying, maybe this wasn't the right thing to do, but what I wanted is this:

Have 1 high quality copy (usually the original) and have a copy for my friend who has an older iPhone that doesn,t support HEVC and streams only over LTE.

This is going to sound a little bit like a XY problem, but it's the solution I found. I created 2 automatic encode:

One to make sure the video is using x265, usually named: /Movies/Fury (2014)/Fury (2014) - 4K x265 HDR.mkv (this tells me the movie is 4k, and HDR)

One to create that copy and name it "Fury (2014) - mobile.mkv" for my friend

To answer your question @Luke, no it didn't really helped, but it seems to be a duplicate for the same problem. I just had something different in mind compared to the other posts.

 

[Carlo 4477]

4 minutes ago, TechKnowCase said:

One to make sure the video is using x265, usually named: /Movies/Fury (2014)/Fury (2014) - 4K x265 HDR.mkv (this tells me the movie is 4k, and HDR)

And this 4K HDR version should never be used to transcode or convert from since it's a different color space than SDR content.

Ideally you have the 4K and a 1080p version that were separately prepared for the proper color space. Then you could use the 1080p version to convert to a mobile version.

[TechKnowCase 0]

2 minutes ago, cayars said:

And this 4K HDR version should never be used to transcode or convert from since it's a different color space than SDR content.

Ideally you have the 4K and a 1080p version that were separately prepared for the proper color space. Then you could use the 1080p version to convert to a mobile version.

I though Emby added Tone-mapping to conversion not that long ago. My bad!

[Luke 38802]

@TechKnowCase are you still having an issue here?