Using shortcuts (lnk) in the watch folder

[ardeth]

Hello there,
currently trying out your software and after understanding it all works just great.
However I am looking for one special feature, maybe you can help mi with that:

We have a NAS with thousands of video files. They sometimes have different file suffixes – like .mpg, .m2ts etc.
I can for example search for all files with “trailer” in their name.
As a search result I have an explorer window with lets say 5000 files from 1500 subfolders – I highlight them all, right click, and then create shortcuts to these 5000 files in my watch folder.
We have been using a software that starts encoding and always pulls the source file from its location – but always only the 4 files it is encoding simultaneously (quad core cpu) – it does not copy the 5000 files to the encoding machine.
Then puts the finished files in output folder and deletes the shortcut.

Is there a way your software does/will support this feature please?

Thank you for your answer,
regards,
David

[admin]

Hi David, thank you for using FFAStrans and welcome to the forum!

That's a great idea and I will take a look at the request. It should be trivial.

-steinar

[ardeth]

Hello there,
may I ask you if there is any progress regarding my question please?
Thank you
David

[admin]

I'm sorry, it was not that trivial after all but I will try and implement it soon.

-steinar

[taner]

Hi Steinar,

Has anything changed concerning submitting lnk-files?

Every time when a lnk-file is picked up or when I submit it manually FFAStrans reports "no video or audio found in media".

Transcoding-machine has the same path-access as it is shown in properties of the lnk-file.

I tried using lnk-files in recent versions of FFAStrans, played around until i found a possibility to automatically delete the lnk-files after transcoding and not the original media it points to.

Not tried it with FFAStrans 0.9.2.1 so far.

Best

Taner

[admin]

Hi Taner, it works but some assumptions are made that make it NOT work under some circumstances. It should be better in the next release. Thanks for notifying!

-steinar