docker-recordings-transcoder

Watches for .ts files in /watch and converts them to h265 .mp4 files automatically.
Tested with Plex and Emby recordings.

Example run

docker run -d \
    --name=recordings-converter \
    -v /home/user/videos:/watch:rw \
    -v /docker/appdata/recordings-transcoder:/config:rw \
    -e ENCODER=software \
    -e SUBTITLES=0 \
    -e DELETE_TS=0 \
    -e PUID=99 \
    -e PGID=100 \
    -e UMASK=000 \
    djaydev/recordings-converter

Where:

• /docker/appdata/recordings-converter: This is where the application stores its configuration, log and any files needing persistency. Location to add a custom script for video conversion named custom.sh

• /home/user/videos: This location contains .ts files that need converting.

• ENCODER: options are "intel" "nvidia" "software" "custom" explained below

• SUBTITLES: Include subtitles from the original .ts, 0 = no, 1 = yes

• DELETE_TS: After converting remove the original .ts recording file. 0 = no, 1 = yes. USE DELETE_TS=0 UNTIL YOU'RE SURE IT WORKS WITH YOUR VIDEO RECORDINGS.

• PUID: ID of the user the application runs as.

• PGID: ID of the group the application runs as.

• UMASK: Mask that controls how file permissions are set for newly created files.

• ENCODER=intel
  This options runs a script to convert the .ts video using ffmpeg with vaapi hardware acceleration enabled. It requires --device /dev/dri:/dev/dri (and write permissions given to PUID user) to access the intel GPU in the docker container. Tries to convert any codec to h265 except AVC/h264. Recordings that are AVC/h264 are only converted to .mp4 files. The reason is because these recordings are compressed enough that vaapi hw transcoding produced larger files sizes, or very bad video quality. Don't agree? Then please use "software" or your own script, see the custom section below.

• ENCODER=nvidia
  This options runs a script to convert the .ts video using ffmpeg with nvenc hardware acceleration enabled. It requires --runtime=nvidia and -e NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all to access the Nvidia GPU in the docker container. Tries to convert any codec to h265 except AVC/h264. Recordings that are AVC/h264 are only converted to .mp4 files. The reason is because these recordings are compressed enough that nvenc hw transcoding produced larger files sizes, or very bad video quality. Don't agree? Then please use "software" or your own script, see the custom section below.

• ENCODER=software
  This options runs a script to convert the .ts video using ffmpeg with software encoding enabled. Very CPU intensive but results in the best file size to video quality ratio. Tries to convert any codec to h265 .mp4 files.

• ENCODER=custom
  This option runs your script to convert the .ts video using ffmpeg however you choose. With this option please include your script named "custom.sh" in the mapped /config folder.

Unraid Users

Help with Intel
Intel GPU Use
Edit your go file to include:
modprobe i915, save and reboot, then
add --device=/dev/dri to "extra parameters" (switch on advanced view)

Help with Nvidia
Nvidia GPU Use
Using the Unraid Nvidia Plugin to install a version of Unraid with the Nvidia Drivers installed and
add --runtime=nvidia to "extra parameters" (switch on advanced view) and
copy your GPU UUID to NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES.

projects used

github.com/jlesage/docker-handbrake
github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
github.com/CCExtractor/ccextractor
github.com/linuxserver/docker-baseimage-ubuntu
github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg