I’ve got NZBGet + Drone working perfectly as long as I keep the file format as MKV. I have some Apple devices and would like to convert the MKV files to to MP4 format. My thought is to put IVI (a Mac Program) between NZBGet and Drone as follows.
Drone sees the episode is available and tells NZBget to download the episode to a folder.
IVI will monitor this folder and when a file appears it will grab it and convert it to MP4 and add the metadata.
At this point, I can have IVI place the file in the Series\Season Folder or I can place it in a folder where Drone can see it and move it.
I’d like Drone to have all the history of the downloads. Is there a preferred method to moving the files into place?
I have access to a Mac and a Windows PC. Is there a better way to do this?
I think the only way to do this is with a postprocessing script in your download client, which then saves the new MP4 into your Drone factory folder. You’ll probably have to turn off completed download handling for it to work, though.
With Completed Download Handling you can just just a postprocessing script in nzbget, as long as the script isn’t finished drone won’t import. This is the preferred way. That’s assuming NzbGet is running on the mac.
Doing it with Drone Factory is a bit more tricky, coz it doesn’t know when a download is finished, usually that’s done by just move/rename on the local drive, till a couple of weeks ago this was the only way.
@charlien said:
I really like how things are working but I really want to get them into MP4 format with metadata. Would using SAB be a better choice than NZBGet?
Which metadata? on the video file itself? (series/episode info)
SAB vs get doesn’t really make a difference in this situation.