Yup, it was an ffmpeg issue. I tried ffmpeg-batch to download and didn’t have any problems at all. However, I only just noticed the resolution on iPlayer SUCKS! I mean it’s 720p when the originals were 480p and it’s worse than the Xvid copies I have now. Ugh! LOL Oh well.
Thank you for your input and understanding my situation but I’ve been fiddling around so much I’ve haven’t gotten even one series or movie encoded. I’m about ready to just pirate a commercial product and see if that will do what I want it to but I probably still wouldn’t find a product that would do everything I want, I’m afraid. Thanks again for your time & input!
I think that’s part of my problems I have new stuff and stuff waaayyy over 10 years old and I’m trying to find a “sweet spot” for everything and I don’t think that’s possible. Yeah, I know what you mean about the additional language, audio, etc. tracks especially in stuff I get from Nyaa. I tend to batch demux a lot of that out before I even start messing around with re-encoding the file. Thanks for your input!
Thank you for the input and reference material. I’ll give it a look-through and appreciate your time.
Thank you, this is VERY helpfuly information! As I mentioned in another reply the ffmpeg front-end I use FastFlix only allows bitrate or CQ encoding when using the VCEEnc Hardware encoder for AMD so your information is noted and very appreciated!
Thank you so much for your input. I’m so glad someone understands my point of view and doesn’t keep telling me DON’T REENCODE. I know that but we do what we have to when we’re not made of $$$. So, you’re saying in re-encoding to let it select it’s bitrate and use 2-pass and be done with it. That’s actually helpful because FastFlix will only allow CQP or Bitrate encoding when using the AMD hardware acceleration VCEEnc. Again, thanks for the advice!
I understand about reencoding and I’ve gotten a lot of flak about that from a lot of people but as I mentioned above it’s more of a space issue with me also. I appreciate the mention of groups to look to as that helps much. Thanks for your input!
Thank you for the input! I’m unsure what aq-mode is but I’m sure it’s somewhere in FastFlix. There’s tons of settings in it that I need to look over. The default CRF for HEVC in that program is 22 and I don’t know if I should go higher, lower or what but I appreciate your insight.
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. I only have two 2Tb drives and they are about full so I’m looking to downsize my files. Someone recommended buying a USB hub and several 16Tb Seagate drives to accomodate but I’m not sure if that’s the best option.
Yeah, I liked Stacher but it didn’t want to seem to parse out all the videos from the Playlist. Probably a settings or something I missed. Might try it again. Thanks for the input though!