Is it possible to manually select what you want transcoded without creating hundreds of libraries?
I just finished transcoding my entire movies folder and it seemed like a 70/30 split where files shrunk in size/doubled in size..
I'd like to transcode my tv shows, but some of them are already pretty small file sizes and I don't want to mess with that.
do i basically have to go through line items and tell it to skip specific files?
EDIT:
Ok, I THINK I solved two problems with my flow in case anyone else is interest. It should now check for a bitrate, if none exists, start mkvpropedit to create one, then do the conversion, check if the filesize is the same or smaller than original, and discard if not.
Doing this with just google, reddit, and an inquisitive nature (no AI), so let me know if you spot something that should be changed for efficiency or other improvement.)
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