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not an issue, a feature request.

After TM/ handbrake CLI is finished working, it would be nice to have it move 
the _finished_ file to a new location, such as "add to iTunes"

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Attempt to open application (on Mac OS 10.9)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output - open application
Actual output - "TranscodingMachine quit unexpectedly"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest version on Mac OS 10.9

Please provide any additional information below.

I finally got the transcoding to work automatically, but it's not auto tagging 
and adding to itunes. 
It will tag if I go into edit and click 'update metadata', 'write metadata', 
and 'save', but doesn't 
work by itself.

I've changed my target folder to 'automatically add to itunes' folder in my 
itunes, but its not 
working. I think it has something to do with the temp file. If I directly drag 
it into the 
'automatically add to itunes' after the transcoding is complete, it works.

What's the best way to set this up.

Great program, can't wait to get it setup properly.

Thanks,

1. No Metadata for TV Shows is loaded
2. Button " Update Metadata" also does#t work 
3.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
MAC OS 10.8.3

Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. change monitored folder and output folder
2. save changes

App crashes

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

1.0 on OS X 10.6.4

it would be nice if the app started hidden, with only the icon in menubar.
also i wish it would quit automatically after finishing all jobs.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. install program in applications folder using admin user
2. set preferences to the desired input and output folders
3. run settings

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
program does not encode video.  Under Edit>Log, I get the following message:
Handbrake CLI: invalid option --P
unknown option (--strict-anamorphic)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.0 RC4
Handbrake CLI 0.9.4
OS X 10.6.4

Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Installed with admin user
2. Set prefs
3. Copied files into the input folder

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected the file to be added to the queue, but nothing was added.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.0 (1)
OSX 10.6.3

Please provide any additional information below.
Adding the file manually to the queue using the add button works fine, 
transcoding the file as 
expected.

1. Transcode video for a TV show with ampersand in the name - i.e. Mike & Molly 
S01E12 First Christmas.

2. Torrents for Mike & Molly actually come through as "Mike.and.Molly".  
Transcoding machine automatically tries searching for "Mike and Molly", which 
results in no hits on thetvdb.com and no metadata stored.

3. If you manually edit the show name to "Mike & Molly" and hit "Update 
Metadata", it returns a show called "Jack and Mike", instead of the correct 
show: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=164501&lid=7


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm using v 1.0 (1) on Max OSX Snow Leopard.

I'm having trouble with TM & "clean install" of Lion.

I get an error that the script can't be added, after manually adding a file to 
the queue, Handbrake isn't picking up and doing anything...



What steps will reproduce the problem?
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.

I'm new to Transcoding Machine but a long time user of Breakfast.

I've recently been questioning the entire need to transcode anything with the 
advent of apps like Plex, Boxee and the like that will play almost any filetype.

That said, I love the tagging, artwork, and renaming functionality of TM and 
Breakfast.  Is there a way to keep those, but turn off the handbrake 
transcoding portion of the app?  If not, can you recommend an alternative?

Thanks.

Thanks for your earlier reply on issue #4. I just did a little more digging and 
have some more 
information.

When I navigate inside the application package and attempt to run the 
TranscodingMachine 
executable, I get the following error:


Last login: Fri May 28 09:38:58 on ttys002
/Users/<username>/Downloads/TranscodingMachine.app/Contents/MacOS/TranscodingMac
hin
e ; exit;
$ 
/Users/<username>/Downloads/TranscodingMachine.app/Contents/MacOS/TranscodingMac
hin
e ; exit;
-bash: 
/Users/<username>/Downloads/TranscodingMachine.app/Contents/MacOS/TranscodingMac
hin
e: Bad CPU type in executable
logout

[Process completed]

And when I do "file TranscodingMachine", I get the following:

$ file TranscodingMachine 
TranscodingMachine: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

It should also have an entry for "Transmit (for architecture i386): Mach-O 
executable i386" too, 
correct?

I have Monitored folder set to: /Users/tom/Downloads/Transmission complete/
I have Output folder set to: /Users/tom/Downloads/Converted
I have Transcoder set to: /Applications/HandBrakeCLI
Extensions is set to avi,m4v,mkv,mp4

I have made sure those folders and the HandbrakeCLI exist at those locations. 
Monitoring is active.

When I drop an avi in the "Transmission complete" folder, nothing happens that 
I can see. Do I need to look for HandbrakeCLI in Activity Monitor or using ps 
-al in Terminal?

Do I need to have TM launched? Do I need to press Start in the Queue window?

Can TM handle spaces in paths to folders?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

1.0 RC 4 on 10.6.4

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Transcoding machine with privileged user
2. Run Transcoding Machine as non privileged User and attach to folder
3. Copy script manually to folder action folder and change permissions to 
executable

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I was expecting to have the folder action running, but unfortunatly even after 
manually setting up the folder actions and several reboots no file is added to 
the queue.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest version downloaded yesterday 1.0RC4, Running on SL 10.6.4 all updates

Please provide any additional information below.
As mentioned, first problem is that the initial run of transcoding machine can 
not be done as a none privileged user, my workaround was to manually copy the 
script and chmod. Still so, this does not seem to work. Attached you will find 
the system logs of
1.) Entries with comments 
2.) Addtional Logs for launchctl etc.

I'm confused of a good macro to use for setting the -i and -o flags for 
conversion.  Any guidance?

Thank you for this great little program.

I have been using it every day, and it would be great if there were an option 
in the preferences panel to delete the original file after encoding and tagging 
is complete.  This would keep my hard drive a little less cluttered.

Thanks!  

What steps will reproduce the problem?
When I try to run Transcoding Machine, I get the following error:
"You can't open the application TranscodingMachine because it is not supported 
on this type of 
Mac." (See screenshot)

Also, the application icon shows a circle with a line through it, indicating 
that it cannot be opened 
(See screenshot).

I'm running Mac OS 10.6.3 (32-bit mode) on a Core Duo iMac.

It would be great if you could add the ability to pause the queue (not cancel 
it). Basic functionality would be great. Adding a time delay would be even 
better. i.e. pause for 5 mins, 15 mins, 1 hour, 3 hours, 6 hours.

Hi,

I realize that Handbrake doesn't even support this, so it might be a lot harder 
for transcoding-machine to support this, but when downloading MKV's, what one 
can do to play them on the iPad or iTV is remuxing them into M4V/MP4 format 
without re-encoding the video (but creating a stereo audio track).  This 
process takes a couple minutes versus hours.

One tool that does this already is called MKVTools, but it doesn't have the 
awesome tagging features like your app does.

Thanks,
Mike

The metadata placed in the Video > Description field describes the overall 
show, as opposed to the 
specific episode.  In this instance, either:

1) The specific episode synopsis should be written in to the field.
2) If specific episode information is unavailable, the field should be left 
blank.

"Breakfast" (http://code.google.com/p/videoengine/) seemed to handle this OK, I 
think retrieving 
the information from thetvdb.com.

I can specify local folders for monitoring just fine, but when I specify a 
folder on a mounted external drive and click the "enable" button, nothing 
happens.

It would be nice to add specific support for external subtitiles

1 . Basic choice

A. Download subtitle and place it on the same folder with same filename.srt
B. Add subtitles to HnadbrakeCLI command line with --srt-file.
C. We need a macro to access to srt file, based on input filename. |INPUT| can 
be used? 
D. We need it to be optional, dont fail if subtitle file is not present.

2. Advanced choice would  be to automatically try to download the subtitle from 
opensubtitiles or other web providers.

Using HandBrakeCLI 0.9.4, TranscodingEngine will immediately fail on attempting 
to start an 
encode.

The -m option appears to be deprecated from HandBrakeCLI 0.9.4 - changing this 
to "--strict-
anamorphic" (seemingly the replacement in 0.9.4) appears to work correctly.

I would like to use the transcoding machine to replace the breakfast 
videoengine. Breakfast has presets for the AppleTV, but I am not aware that the 
transcoding machine does. I like the extra flexibility of the transcoding 
machine in that I can use any HandBrakeCLI command line args that I want to 
use. But, how do I determine what args to use? I would like to convert video to 
mp4 for the AppleTV, and, on occasion, to mp4 with deinterlacing (also for the 
ATV).

Here is what is already in the prefs for the arguments: 

-i |INPUT| -o |OUTPUT| -e x264 -q 0.589999973773956 -a 1,1 -E faac,ac3 -B 
160,auto -R 48,Auto -6 dpl2,auto -f mp4 -4 -X 1280 -P --strict-anamorphic -x 
level=30:cabac=0:ref=3:mixed-refs=1:bframes=6:weightb=1:direct=auto:no-fast-pski
p=1:me=umh:subq=7:analyse=all

Does transcoding machine use prefs already set in breakfast?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
v 1.0 on 10.6.4

I'd like to join the project and help contribute code.  I re-wrote the user 
interface using BWToolkit which I thought made the app look a bit more 
polished.  Not sure if you are even interested in it, but if you are, I'd like 
to check it in.  Otherwise, I'd like to contribute to the app.

Here is a screenshot.