base_args in ffmpeg_transcoder.py make automedia unsuitable for video transcoding.

[Dizzy611]

I was planning on using automedia for transcoding a bunch of video to x265, however the base args include -vn which drops all video data from any input stream. I'm not sure you want this if automedia is supposed to be for all media, not just music/audio.

[mmastrac]

That's a good point. Originally I needed to do this because some album covers are considered video in some audio formats.

I think we could move the arguments to strip video into each of the audio presets. There's no overlap between audio and video transcoding formats, so the preset would determine whether video is included or not.

[mmastrac]

This is now fixed, please let me know if that works for you.

[matt-laird]

Not sure if I understand, inline with the original issue opened, you are forced to only pass in audio related presets into the transcode command. On all versions released, is this intentional at the moment, is the tool only able to work with audio files?

[mmastrac]

At the moment, the tool only works with audio files but the code should now support video-capable transcoding. I haven't tested it, but the flags that strip output video are no longer passed automatically, and it should be a matter of creating a preset for the video format you'd like to use.

https://github.com/mmastrac/automedia/blob/main/src/automedia/ffmpeg_transcoder.py#L19

I could probably add a custom transcoding command where the user is given much more control over the flags passed... would that be helpful?