Thank you! I am obnoxiously proud of myself for that one 😅
That’s actually how this all started for me haha! I was sitting there tweaking the same command as I hit videos with different formats or quality levels, and I thought to myself that it’d be a lot easier with just a few smarts like detecting if a video is already at the target quality level. The first version was actually just a winforms GUI wrapping that very PowerShell command - it’s come a long way in just a few weeks.
Subler is interesting! Hmm. Currently HISTV just copies over ask the subtitle tracks directly. I think I could add a subtitle function like Subler’s to bake in subtitle tracks, if the user has the subtitle file they want to use. Would that be useful? Metadata download from the internet is messy though, I might want to leave that to the existing *arr solutions.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I use Subler mostly as a metadata acquisition and injector tool, and secondarily as a M4V remux sanitiser. The subtitles function is more a subset of its stream management, and is much less relevant than its name implies. That said, it does do a very competent job at converting, through OCR, DVD and BluRay bitmap subtitles to ASCII variants required for MP4 containers.
I think it only works in macOS, which makes it difficult to understand its purpose when you don’t have that platform readily available. Ideally it would have a CLI/TUI which would lend it better to script integration.
obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Yeah, it’s early and I was just skimming the docs for it as I don’t have a Mac. I’ll think about the metadata downloader; it does have a place, arguably, as related to the mkv tag repair I built in.
As to the CLI, HISTV does have one! It’s a standalone binary but it uses the same Rust backend as the GUI for feature parity and maintainability 😊