TV Tubes - Talkin' 'bout my automation...

TV Tubes Talkin’ ‘bout my automation… (Complete with crappy PowerPoint theme) Neil Crosby

The Problem
You:
Like watching TV Shows.
Can’t watch when they’re on TV normally.
Don’t have a VCR.

The Solution
Timeshift by downloading episodes.
Put episodes into iTunes.
Sync to iPod, iPhone,  TV etc.
Delete them once they’ve been watched.
But, do this completely automatically.

What You Need
A Mac
TVShows.app
BitTorrent Client
VisualHub
iTunes
Two FolderActions
One Standalone AppleScript
A Small Aubergine

TVShows .app
Lets you download new episodes of shows whenever they appear, automatically.
Whenever new episodes appear, they get downloaded by your favourite BitTorrent client.
It’s a kind of magic

BitTorrent
Any client will do, as long as fully downloaded items are able to be moved to a “downloaded” folder automatically.
Azureus does this quite happily.

The First FolderAction
Invoked when files appear in “downloaded” folder.
Starts VisualHub using a config file.
Pipes files into VisualHub.
Starts VisualHub re-encoding the files.

VisualHub
Costs $23.32
Uses ffmpeg for encoding.
So, it could (and should) be refactored out as an exercise for the reader

ffmpeg commandline ffmpeg -y -threads 4 -i some.show.03x05.some.episode.name.avi -s 640x480 -r 29.98 -vcodec h264 -g 300 -aspect 640:480 -qmin 27 -b 900 -level 30 -loop 1 -sc_threshold 40 -partp4x4 1 -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -refs 2 -qmax 51 -maxrate 1400 -async 50 -acodec aac -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 128 some.show.03x05.some.episode.name.mp4

VisualHub
Costs $23.32
Uses ffmpeg for encoding.
So, it could (and should) be refactored out as an exercise for the reader
Set up to save re-encoded to episodes to “encoded” folder.

The Second FolderAction
Invoked when files appear in “encoded” folder.
Adds files to iTunes
Works out Show Name, Season Number and Episode Number (Perl)

The Perl if (/^(.*)[s.-]+s?([0-9][0-9]?)[ex]?([0-9][0-9])/i) { $show=$1; $season=$2; $episode=$3; $show=~s/s*-s*$//; // Remove dash from end of show name $show=~s/./ /g; // Convert dots to spaces $show=~s/((^w)|(sw))/U$1/g; // Capitalise each word print "$show $season $episode "; } Show Season Episode

The Second FolderAction
Invoked when files appear in “encoded” folder.
Adds files to iTunes
Works out Show Name, Season Number and Episode Number (Perl)
Sets info in iTunes

iTunes
Does any syncing that you’ve told it to do with your TV Shows!
You get to watch the shows you want without having to be around when they’re on TV.
Awesome.

The Overall Process

But wait, there’s more!

Current Gotchas
Deletion process still to be written.
VisualHub can’t cope with videos inside folders.
VisualHub doesn’t like things to be added to its “to encode” list - shows get encoded twice.

Write-up / Instructions
Full instructions for setting up your own “TV Tubes” process will be available at workingwith .me. uk very soon.

TV Tubes - Talkin' 'bout my automation...

by Neil Crosby on Aug 26, 2008

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