unRAID for automated handbrake transcoding

[R3jected]

Is there a handbrake plugin, so that my father would upload basic .mp4's to a folder on the server and let handbrake automatically compress and delete the lager file when finished? To avoid that his old cheap system running all night (which for me is a fire threat )  Or should I post this question in a different section of the forum?

[Bjonness406]

There is an handbrake docker, have never tried it so can't say anything about is.

Search for it on CA

[R3jected]

And how would be the watchfolder and auto deleting of already processed files work?

Can you take advantage of full hardware accelerated encoding?

[Bjonness406]

And how would be the watchfolder and auto deleting of already processed files work?

Can you take advantage of full hardware accelerated encoding?

You should ask in the support thread instead, bigger chance someone who use it will se your post.

Or you can just try it 

[ClunkClunk]

Unless it's a very recent addition, Handbrake doesn't have GPU encoding (if that's what you meant by "hardware encoding"); it's all CPU based.

 

AFAIK, h.264 hardware encoding is fast, but at a serious tradeoff of quality. And if you have a fast enough CPU, the h.264/x264 'veryfast' preset in ffmpeg and others will produce superior visual results with similar/better encoding time.

 

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=26661169