I dont know what is Handbrake Cli, my guess is that’s a piece of software used to make the Original Handbrake freeware I use often to compress and encode videos to make them compatible with Itunes.
From what I can understand I can use Handbrake Cli as an automated tool that would encode and compress the very heavy video files produced by Plex DVR recorder. Am I right?
As soon as a show finished recording Handbrake Cli would take it from there and do his job to compress and probably delete the original heavy file.
I’m on Mac I use the last version of Plex with a HDHomerun.
Where do I start? How can I install Handbrake cli and tell it to compress all DVR content?
I would say it is best to start on the handbrake site. But there may be some post processing scripts in the forum that use it. Cli means command line interfaces basically it can be used in a script and automate processes. Gui is graphical user interface which is what you are used to with handbrake.
Plex has allowed a user to run any post processing actions they want on their media files before they are moved to the library. There is a Post Processing option in the DVR setup where you can specify the script you have setup that you would like executed on files. This allows users that want recordings converted to have the conversion run on each recording, those that don’t leave the Post Processing option blank.
@johnm_ColaSC said:
Plex has allowed a user to run any post processing actions they want on their media files before they are moved to the library. There is a Post Processing option in the DVR setup where you can specify the script you have setup that you would like executed on files. This allows users that want recordings converted to have the conversion run on each recording, those that don’t leave the Post Processing option blank.
Yes I get that. But I need to know how what is the procedure to link a script with the plex server and where to get the script.
I know nothing about scripts.
Scripts are user created, they put together the tools they want to use for post processing such as Comskip ffmpeg, Handbrake, etc. and create a script to run each tool against the recording. You might be able to find some other posts about Mac OS and Post Processing on the forum. Perhaps this might be a starting point: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1273228#Comment_1273228
