ReStream automation for dragon-radar

[LaunchSneezed]

I just wanna say dragon-radar is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for creating this. It's a dream come true. I've got a bunch of multi-colored bricks to dust off now if you know what I mean.

If you'd be interested in a way to automate the ReStream process let me know. I've create a little command line app that I call ReStream4DR. The DR stands for dragon-radar obviously.

It runs real simple:

ReStream4DR <path to ReStream.exe> <path to .m2v>

It will run ReStream with the .m2v along with the correct option of unticking the frametype progressive box and then close ReStream when it's done doing its thing. Fully automated to allow batching.

[gravitypriest]

Hey-- apologies for taking so long to get to this. Please feel free to create a pull request with this addition -- it'd be a great help!

[LaunchSneezed]

Hello!

My python is rubbish but in order to include ReStream4DR I think some editing needs to be done around this line - demux.py#L114

So I'm going to leave ReStream4DR here and you may do whatever you please with it. I've uploaded it to files.fm - https://files.fm/f/kzdm4f9x

Be sure to read the included readme.txt or run "ReStream4DR -h" for the help.

I kept it as simple as possible. Just pass it the path to ReStream.exe followed by the path of the M2V file and that's all.

ReStream4DR "C:\Programs\ReStream\ReStream.exe" "E:\Dragon Ball\Temp\file.m2v"

It's important to surround the 2 paths by double-quotes. Even if there's no space.

Upon success, ReStream4DR will exit with an exit code of 0 and no text will be printed so it runs silently. So basically after running ReStream4DR just wait for the exit code. If it's 0 then you will know everything went fine and DR may proceed onward to the next task.

If any part of the ReStream4DR process fails then the exit code will be something > 0 and details of the error will be printed to the console. So the only time ReStream4DR speaks is if there was some error; which is useful to able to to know exactly what happened.

So far I've never had it fail on me in all my testing so it works consistently on my machine. I don't imagine it would ever fail unless the screen resolution of the user is extremely low that the ReStream GUI doesn't fit completely on the screen without getting cut off. That's an extreme situation because the resolution would have to be less than 600x600. Normally the screen resolution wouldn't be a problem but the ReStream GUI is not your every day normal GUI...

You may do whatever you want with ReStream4DR. I'd say either include it with DR or even more simply just host it somewhere and let the user download it if they want it. Then they can add it as a tool in the dragon-radar.ini if they want full automation.

Either way, I'd suggest leaving the current manual method as a backup option even if ReStream4DR is being used. DR can go through ReStream4DR first and if the exit code != 0 then prompt the user for doing it the manual way. Or let the user read the error message that ReStream4DR spits out and they'll have a way to understand what went wrong and be able to fix it for the next time.

Right now ReStream4DR will run ReStream with the "frametype progressive" checkbox unticked. That's the only ReStream option that it ever touches and I believe that's the one and only thing that DR needs ReStream to do, right? Is there any situation when some other option needs to be used? If so, I'll add it in.

I hope that this tool will be useful to you and everyone else. At least now DR can be fully automated if the user wants to run it overnight and not have to be paused for ReStream. Plus, there's the added benefit of having less chance for a user-made error when the user doesn't have to fiddle around with ReStream by themselves.

Thanks again for making DR. It's really a dream come true. I've only used it on a couple of episodes here and there for testing so I still have to do my whole sets.

[gravitypriest]

Thanks very much-- I'll take a look at it and if it looks good I'll include it in the next version.

[LaunchSneezed]

No problem-o.

Plus if there would be anything you'd want me to add to RS4DR just let me know.

[gravitypriest]

Mind sharing the source for this application?