PlexPostProc.sh

#!/bin/bash

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#            Plex DVR Post Processing Script
#
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#
#  Version: 2024.7.29 (forked by apassiou)
#
#  Pre-requisites:
#     ffmpeg (recommended) with libx265 or handbrakecli
#
#  Usage:
#     'PlexPostProc.sh %1'
#
#  Description:
#      My script is currently pretty simple.  Here's the general flow:
#
#      1. Creates a temporary directory in the /tmp directory for
#      the show it is about to transcode.
#
#      2. Uses the selected encoder to transcode the original, very
#      large MPEG2 format file to a smaller, more manageable H.264 mkv file
#      (which can be streamed to various devices more easily).
#
#      3. Copies the file back to the original .grab folder for final processing
#
#  Log:
#     Single log is generated with timestamped transcodes.

#     Note: Logs are not deleted, so some cleanup of the temp directory may be
#       required, or a server reboot should clear this folder.
#
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TMPFOLDER="/tmp"
ENCODER="nvenc"  # Encoder to use:
                  # "ffmpeg" for FFMPEG (CPU)
                  # "nvenc" utilizes ffmpeg to leverage Nvidia NVENC (GPU)
                  # "handbrake" for HandBrake (NOT MAINTAINED)
                  # "nvtrans" for Plex Transcoder with NVENC support (NOT MAINTAINED)
                  
RES="720"         # Resolution to convert to:
                  # "480" = 480 Vertical Resolution
                  # "720" = 720 Vertical Resolution
                  # "1080" = 1080 Vertical Resolution

#**************************FFMPEG SPECIFIC SETTINGS****************************
# CPU ENCODING SETTINGS
VIDEO_CODEC="libx265" # Will need Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or later. Otherwise change to "libx264". On average libx265 should produce files half in size of libx264  without losing quality. It is more compute intensive, so transcoding will take longer.
VIDEO_QUALITY=26 #Lower values produce better quality. It is not recommended going lower than 18. 26 produces around 1Mbps video, 23 around 1.5Mbps.
VIDEO_FRAMERATE="24000/1001" #Standard US movie framerate, most US TV shows run at this framerate as well

#GPU ENCODING SETTINGS
HW_CODEC="hevc_nvenc" #NVIDIA nvenc has support for h264_nvenc, hevc_nvenc and av1_nvenc (but AV1 needs Ada Lovelace or later series of cards (2022 or later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace_(microarchitecture))
HW_QUALITY=31 #Software (CPU) and HW (GPU) encoding use different quality ranges, 32 on HW is about the same bitrate as 26 on SW.
NVPRESET=p5 #Trades speed for quality, p1 is fastest and worst quality, p7 is slowers and best quality. On most GPUs p1 through p5 are almost the same speed, so no reason to use below p5. From p5 to p6 speed drops by about 20%, from p5 to p7 speed drops by about 50%

#BOTH CPU AND GPU SETTINGS
DOWNMIX_AUDIO=2 #Number of channels to downmix to, set to 0 to turn off (leave source number of channels, but make sure to increase audio bitrate to accomodate all the needed bitrate. For 5.1 Id set no lower than 320). 1 == mono, 2 == stereo, 6 == 5.1
AUDIO_CODEC="libfdk_aac" # From best to worst: libfdk_aac > libmp3lame/eac3/ac3 > aac. But libfdk_acc requires manual compilaton of ffmpeg. For OTA DVR standard acc should be enough.
AUDIO_BITRATE=96

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#  Do not edit below this line
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PPP_CHECK=0

#In order to avoid log file jumble, if another transcode process is active will wait to write to log until done
if ls "$TMPFOLDER/"*".ppplock" 1> /dev/null 2>&1; then
    PPP_CHECK=1
fi

LOG_STRING_3="" #Placeholder as some portions dont use all log strings.
LOG_STRING_4=""

sleep 3

check_errs()
{
        # Function. Parameter 1 is the return code
        # Para. 2 is text to display on failure
        if [ "${1}" -ne "0" ]; then
           echo "ERROR # ${1} : ${2}" | tee -a $LOGFILE
           exit ${1}
        fi
}

if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then
# The if selection statement proceeds to the script if $1 is not empty.
   if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
      fatal "$1 does not exist"
   fi
   # The above if selection statement checks if the file exists before proceeding.

   FILENAME=$1  # %FILE% - Filename of original file

   FILESIZE="$(ls -lh "$FILENAME" | awk '{ print $5 }')"

   RANDFILENAME="$(mktemp)"  # Base random name, will be used for cleanup
   rm -f "$RANDFILENAME" #Cleanup mktemp artifact
   TEMPFILENAME="$RANDFILENAME.mkv"  # Temporary File Name for transcoding

   LOCKFILE="$(mktemp)"  # [WORKAROUND] Temporary File for blocking simultaneous scripts from ending early
   rm -f "$LOCKFILE" #Clean up mktemp artifact
   touch "$LOCKFILE.ppplock" # Create the lock file
   check_errs $? "Failed to create temporary lockfile: $LOCKFILE.ppplock"

   LOGFILE="$TMPFOLDER/plex_DVR_post_processing_log"
   touch $LOGFILE # Create the log file

   # Uncomment if you want to adjust the bandwidth for this thread
   #MYPID=$$    # Process ID for current script
   # Adjust niceness of CPU priority for the current process
   #renice 19 $MYPID

   # ********************************************************
   # Starting Transcoding
   # ********************************************************

   LOG_STRING_1="\n$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"): Transcoding $FILENAME to $TEMPFILENAME\n"
   if [[ PPP_CHECK -eq 0 ]]; then
     printf "$LOG_STRING_1" | tee -a $LOGFILE
   fi
   if [[ $ENCODER == "handbrake" ]]; then
     LOG_STRING_2="You have selected HandBrake"
         if [[ PPP_CHECK -eq 0 ]]; then
       printf "$LOG_STRING_1" | tee -a $LOGFILE
     fi
     HandBrakeCLI -i "$FILENAME" -f mkv --aencoder copy -e qsv_h264 --x264-preset veryfast --x264-profile auto -q 16 --maxHeight $RES --decomb bob -o "$TEMPFILENAME"
     check_errs $? "Failed to convert using Handbrake."
   elif [[ $ENCODER == "ffmpeg" ]]; then
     LOG_STRING_2="Using FFMPEG"
     LOG_STRING_3=" [$FILESIZE -> "
     if [[ PPP_CHECK -eq 0 ]]; then
         printf "$LOG_STRING_2$LOG_STRING_3" | tee -a $LOGFILE
     fi
     start_time=$(date +%s)
     if [[ $DOWNMIX_AUDIO -ne  0 ]]; then
         ffmpeg -i "$FILENAME" -s hd$RES -c:v "$VIDEO_CODEC" -r "$VIDEO_FRAMERATE"  -preset veryfast -crf "$VIDEO_QUALITY" -vf yadif -codec:a "$AUDIO_CODEC" -ac "$DOWNMIX_AUDIO" -b:a "$AUDIO_BITRATE"k -async 1 "$TEMPFILENAME"
     else
         ffmpeg -i "$FILENAME" -s hd$RES -c:v "$VIDEO_CODEC" -r "$VIDEO_FRAMERATE"  -preset veryfast -crf "$VIDEO_QUALITY" -vf yadif -codec:a "$AUDIO_CODEC" -b:a "$AUDIO_BITRATE"k -async 1 "$TEMPFILENAME"
     fi
     end_time=$(date +%s)
     seconds="$(( end_time - start_time ))"
     minutes_taken="$(( seconds / 60 ))"
     seconds_taken="$(( $seconds - (minutes_taken * 60) ))"
     LOG_STRING_4="$(ls -lh $TEMPFILENAME | awk ' { print $5 }')] - [$minutes_taken min $seconds_taken sec]\n"
     check_errs $? "Failed to convert using FFMPEG."
   elif [[ $ENCODER == "nvtrans" ]]; then
     export FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS="$(find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/ -name "libmpeg2video_decoder.so" -printf "%h\n")/"
     check_errs $? "Failed to convert using smart Plex Transcoder (NVENC). libmpeg2video_decoder.so not found."
     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/plexmediaserver:/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/lib/"

     # Grab some dimension and framerate info so we can set bitrates
     HEIGHT="$(/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Transcoder -i "$FILENAME" 2>&1 | grep "Stream #0:0" | perl -lane 'print $1 if /, \d{3,}x(\d{3,})/')"
     FPS="$(/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Transcoder -i "$FILENAME" 2>&1 | grep "Stream #0:0" | perl -lane 'print $1 if /, (\d+(.\d+)*) fps/')"

     if [[ -z "${HEIGHT}" ]]; then
             # Failed to get dimensions of source... try a dumb transcode.
             /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Transcoder -y -hide_banner -hwaccel nvdec -i "$FILENAME" -s hd$RES -c:v h264_nvenc -preset veryfast -c:a copy "$TEMPFILENAME"
             check_errs $? "Failed to convert using simple Plex Transcoder (NVENC)."
           else
             # Smart transcode based on source dimensions and fps
       # Bitrate vlaues (Mb). Assuming 1080i30 (ATSC max) has same needs as 720p60
       # Assuming 60 fps needs 2x bitrate than 30 fps
       MULTIPLIER=$(echo - | perl -lane "if (${FPS} < 59) {print 1.0} else {print 2.0}")
       ABR=$(echo - | perl -lane "if (${HEIGHT} < 720) {print 1*${MULTIPLIER}} elsif (${HEIGHT} < 1080) {print 2*${MULTIPLIER}} else {print 4*${MULTIPLIER}}")
       MBR=$(echo - | perl -lane "print ${ABR} * 1.5")
       BUF=$(echo - | perl -lane "print ${MBR} * 2.0")
       /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Transcoder -y -hide_banner -hwaccel nvdec -i "$FILENAME" -c:v h264_nvenc -b:v "${ABR}M" -maxrate:v "${MBR}M" -profile:v high -bf:v 3 -bufsize:v "${BUF}M" -preset:v hq -forced-idr:v 1 -c:a copy "$TEMPFILENAME"
             check_errs $? "Failed to convert using smart Plex Transcoder (NVENC)."
          fi
   elif [[ $ENCODER == "nvenc" ]]; then
     export FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS="$(find /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/ -name "libmpeg2video_decoder.so" -printf "%h\n")/"
     LOG_STRING_2="Using NVENC (QP $HW_QUALITY, $NVPRESET)"
     LOG_STRING_3=" [$FILESIZE -> "
     if [[ PPP_CHECK -eq 0 ]]; then
         printf "$LOG_STRING_2$LOG_STRING_3" | tee -a $LOGFILE
     fi
     start_time=$(date +%s)
     ffmpeg -hwaccel auto -hwaccel_output_format cuda -i "$FILENAME" -vf yadif_cuda=2:-1:0,scale_npp=-1:"$RES" -c:v "$HW_CODEC" -rc constqp -qp "$HW_QUALITY" -b:v 0 -preset "$NVPRESET" -tune hq -rc-lookahead 20 -forced-idr:v 1 -c:a "$AUDIO_CODEC" -ac "$DOWNMIX_AUDIO" -b:a "$AUDIO_BITRATE"k -async 1 "$TEMPFILENAME"
     end_time=$(date +%s)
     seconds="$(( end_time - start_time ))"
     minutes_taken="$(( seconds / 60 ))"
     seconds_taken="$(( $seconds - (minutes_taken * 60) ))"
     LOG_STRING_4="$(ls -lh $TEMPFILENAME | awk ' { print $5 }')] - [$minutes_taken min $seconds_taken sec]\n"
     check_errs $? "Failed to convert using NVENC."
   else
     echo "Oops, invalid ENCODER string.  Using Default [FFMpeg]." | tee -a $LOGFILE
     ffmpeg -i "$FILENAME" -s hd$RES -c:v libx264 -preset veryfast -vf yadif -c:a copy "$TEMPFILENAME"
     check_errs $? "Failed to convert using FFMPEG."
   fi

   # ********************************************************"
   # Encode Done. Performing Cleanup
   # ********************************************************"

   LOG_STRING_5="$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"): Finished transcode,"
   if [[ PPP_CHECK -eq 0 ]]; then
       printf "$LOG_STRING_4$LOG_STRING_5" | tee -a $LOGFILE
   fi

   rm -f "$FILENAME" # Delete original in .grab folder
   check_errs $? "Failed to remove original file: $FILENAME"

   mv -f "$TEMPFILENAME" "${FILENAME%.ts}.mkv" # Move completed tempfile to .grab folder/filename
   check_errs $? "Failed to move converted file: $TEMPFILENAME"

   rm -f "$LOCKFILE.ppplock"* # Delete the lockfile
   check_errs $? "Failed to remove lockfile."

   # [WORKAROUND] Wait for any other post-processing scripts to complete before exiting. So that plex doesnt start deleting grab files.
   timeout_counter=120
   while [ true ] ; do
     if ls "$TMPFOLDER/"*".ppplock" 1> /dev/null 2>&1; then
       if  [[ $timeout_counter -eq 0 ]]; then
           echo "Timeout reached, ending wait" | tee -a $LOGFILE
           break
       fi
       if [[ timeout_counter -eq 120 ]]; then #Prevents log spam, after initial message simple '.' will be printed to log.
           printf "\n$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"): Another transcode running. Waiting." | tee -a $LOGFILE
       else
           printf "." | tee -a $LOGFILE
       fi
       timeout_counter=$((timeout_counter-1))
       sleep 60
     else
       if  [[ $timeout_counter -lt 119 ]]; then
           echo "$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"): It looks like all scripts are done running, exiting." | tee -a $LOGFILE
       fi
       break
     fi
   done

   if [[ PPP_CHECK -eq 1 ]]; then
       printf "$LOG_STRING_1$LOG_STRING_2$LOG_STRING_3$LOG_STRING_4$LOG_STRING_5" | tee -a $LOGFILE #Doing all together as to not stumble over multiple concurrent processes in log
   fi
   printf " exiting.\n" | tee -a $LOGFILE

else
   echo "********************************************************" | tee -a $LOGFILE
   echo "PlexPostProc by apassiou. Original by nebhead" | tee -a $LOGFILE
   echo "Usage: $0 FileName" | tee -a $LOGFILE
   echo "********************************************************" | tee -a $LOGFILE
fi

sleep 3 #Time for things to settle down, move commands to finish etc...