Transcoded files available

**Paul** · 06-12-2012, 10:36 AM

Both suggestions are already in our development database, and we'll implement them in a future version. Thanks for letting us know how useful/important they are to you. Hopefully we can get to them soon.

**Paul** · 07-06-2012, 06:35 PM

Just an update - Mezzmo v2.6.4 has been released and you can now save out your transcoded files. Right-click on a file in Mezzmo and click Properties. In the Properties dialog, go to the Transcoding tab to see all the transcoded files that have been created for this file. Select one and click Save As to save it to a location on your computer. Once saved, if you wish, you can then add it into your Mezzmo library using Add To Library -> Add Files.

**bsantelli** · 07-21-2012, 04:54 AM

Originally Posted by Paul

Just an update - Mezzmo v2.6.4 has been released and you can now save out your transcoded files. Right-click on a file in Mezzmo and click Properties. In the Properties dialog, go to the Transcoding tab to see all the transcoded files that have been created for this file. Select one and click Save As to save it to a location on your computer. Once saved, if you wish, you can then add it into your Mezzmo library using Add To Library -> Add Files.

I don't quite understand this new function. One of the suggestions in this thread was for transcoded files to be called the same name as the file that is being transcoded. All this function does, is allow you to make a 'copy' of the transcoded file, and to another location. But how do I set the default, so that everytime mezzmo transcodes a file, it uses the original file name instead of the randomly generated filename? That's the feature I was waiting for and was hoping was included in the latest release.

**Paul** · 07-23-2012, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by bsantelli

I don't quite understand this new function. One of the suggestions in this thread was for transcoded files to be called the same name as the file that is being transcoded. All this function does, is allow you to make a 'copy' of the transcoded file, and to another location. But how do I set the default, so that everytime mezzmo transcodes a file, it uses the original file name instead of the randomly generated filename? That's the feature I was waiting for and was hoping was included in the latest release.

Thanks for your feedback. Just to explain a little further - the transcoded filenaming is not random and is used internally by Mezzmo to quickly identify the transcoded file and how it was transcoded. So, unfortunately, we cannot have original filenaming in this instance.

**Heffaklump** · 09-08-2012, 03:12 AM

I like most of suggestions in this thread. One feature I wold like to see is a quick way for each video file to get a "mark" or something if it needs to be transcoded to be played on a certain device. And I think this information is available right now, you just have to dig around for it and do it for each file.

For example I will have to transcode 30-60% of my avi files. It would be great if I easily could see this in the video library or somwere else. Because then I could pre-transcode those files in advance and be able to fast forward etc. I think we almost have this information because when l tried to transcode a file which was supposed to be natively supported Mezzmo told me I didn't have to (even though I had to force it in this case)

Just make a separate "quick" media scanner which checks the FFmpeg Information against the selected profile (for example BRAVIA KDL 2011).
Not being a programer but only looking at what you have in Mezzmo today it seems like a fast and straight forward solution to implement. But I guess it has to look nice to, and that could take ages to implement

/Heffa

**Heffaklump** · 09-08-2012, 06:10 AM

Maybe I should post this as a separate topic, I would love this feature but maybe it is in the wrong topic? Paul?

**Paul** · 09-10-2012, 01:47 PM

Thanks for the suggestion, Heffaklump. We'll consider it for a future version. In the current version (v2.6.7.0), you can right-click on a folder or playlist in Mezzmo and then click 'Pre-transcode Files'. Only those files that require pre-transcoding for the selected device will be queued and those that are natively supported will not be queued for transcoding. So this would let you pre-transcode the files that are not natively supported by your device in advance.

**mhaswell** · 10-03-2012, 10:41 PM

Hi,

I'd like to throw my vote in to this too. I have version 2.7.1.0 and I would love the column to show if something has been transcoded too.

I have a Samsung TV as the main thing I want to watch video on and the transcoding has really helped - except that the original file is of no use to me after it's been transcoded and so I would want to swap the newly transcoded file into the place of the original file (in order to save space rather than doubling it).

I understand that not all people would want to do that - but a right-click option perhaps - especially in a generated list of all the transcoded files (since it disappears from the Transcoder status window after it has been processed I don't want to have to look inside every folder to find every transcoded file).

I didn't know about the "properties" file "save transcoded file as" option - thanks for that! - although it's a pain it defaults to your desktop rather than the original folder it was transcoded from. Since I have currently about 168 transcoded files to swap over this would take hours of navigating through the directory tree again and again... and I haven't even told it to scan my library yet for files that need this - this is just the list of files that it has transcoded on the fly.

Ultimately I would like a tick box in the transcoding to automatically replace the original file (a copy of the original file could be kept in the transcoding directory tree just in case I suppose - then it's easy to just delete them when I run out of space). Then I could just tell it to transcode all files on the disk and I wouldn't have to worry about the old original versions taking up space but being useless to the Samsung TV.

Is there any list of planned features that you keep to work on? I wouldn't mind tracking this feature so I could see how long until it is implemented!

If there is a way I can help then please just let me know.

Best regards,

Matt

**Paul** · 10-04-2012, 10:24 AM

Hi Matt,

We'll give this some more thought, but generally we don't like overwriting the original file automatically in Mezzmo - for a few reasons (i) if the transcoding (via ffmpeg.exe) produces an unplayable file in any way, then you are left with no original file any more (you will only know if it is unplayable when you stream it), and (ii) most people have more than one DLNA device in their home now (e.g. multiple TVs, Blu-ray players, smartphones, tablets, games consoles, etc.) so multiple transcoded files are required to match each device's supported formats so the files can be streamed natively to each device. So our current solution is to let users save a transcoded file to another location manually via the Save As button on the Properties dialog (Transcoding tab). This let's you save it to another location and add it to your Mezzmo library, or overwrite the original file if you wish. I agree that doing this one file at a time is time-consuming, so we'll look into a batch method to do this.

**mhaswell** · 10-04-2012, 04:53 PM

Hi Paul,

Hmmm - I see your points. I do have a bunch of xbmc and smartphones (using Rockplayer) - but they are all less picky about media files than my Samsung TV which is why I base all transcoding on that and the others will always understand but I see what you mean. However a batch method to convert them would be great.

Many thanks,

Matt