[DJ_Izumi]

Hi everyone,

Garret did a really good job on making this work for most releases under *NIX operating systems,

he script doesn't work on Windows. I have a pull request in right now to have that fixed but I've actually written a GUI around it which hopefully will make it easier for everyone, including Windows users. As far as I'm aware, it works on most releases including most of Coalgirl's.

You can see my blog post on it here: http://vaughanhilts.me/blog/2015/04/30/u...linux.html

The GitHub page is here: https://github.com/hilts-vaughan/UnlinkMKV-GUI

Hope this helps some people!

I like this, I need to try this when I get home. Re-splicing episodes so that they are more compatible with players makes a lot more sense than adjusting the software to support that feature, and ensure future players won't have to support it either.

[Vaughan Hilts]

Hi everyone,

Garret did a really good job on making this work for most releases under *NIX operating systems,

he script doesn't work on Windows. I have a pull request in right now to have that fixed but I've actually written a GUI around it which hopefully will make it easier for everyone, including Windows users. As far as I'm aware, it works on most releases including most of Coalgirl's.

You can see my blog post on it here: http://vaughanhilts.me/blog/2015/04/30/u...linux.html

The GitHub page is here: https://github.com/hilts-vaughan/UnlinkMKV-GUI

Hope this helps some people!

I like this, I need to try this when I get home. Re-splicing episodes so that they are more compatible with players makes a lot more sense than adjusting the software to support that feature, and ensure future players won't have to support it either.

Great, let me know how it goes or PM if you need a hand.

And agreed, we might not see this feature in a lot of players for a long while, if ever despite being in the spec. It's best to just have my media in a format that is supported by as many players as possible. It's not worth a few hundred megabyte savings when we have disks in the terrabytes.

[DJ_Izumi]

No dice on the Serial Experiments Lain I have. I followed the instructions, set the input folder, set the output folder, hit 'Unlike' and in about 4 seconds it tells me it's complete while nothing happened. I check Verbose mode but don't even see any text saying what processes it's undergone.

Edit: Okay, my bad, I needed to do the Perl Logging thing. Thing is, now it just does a BUNCH of work but spit out no results. Here's the entire log it generated:

http://pastebin.com/wgTxzWyt

Basically, input was Z:\Anime Series\Serial Experiments Lain and output was D:\Temp\, it did all that, and in the end D:\Temp\ was empty.

[Vaughan Hilts]

No dice on the Serial Experiments Lain I have. I followed the instructions, set the input folder, set the output folder, hit 'Unlike' and in about 4 seconds it tells me it's complete while nothing happened. I check Verbose mode but don't even see any text saying what processes it's undergone.

Edit: Okay, my bad, I needed to do the Perl Logging thing. Thing is, now it just does a BUNCH of work but spit out no results. Here's the entire log it generated:

http://pastebin.com/wgTxzWyt

Basically, input was Z:\Anime Series\Serial Experiments Lain and output was D:\Temp\, it did all that, and in the end D:\Temp\ was empty.

This is going to sound really silly.. but I think I might have forgot to escape a string somewhere.

Could you try renaming your file to have no spaces in it? (Just the input file; the input directory should be OK)

If that works, I'll patch the application and upload a new version.

[DJ_Izumi]

This is going to sound really silly.. but I think I might have forgot to escape a string somewhere.

Could you try renaming your file to have no spaces in it? (Just the input file; the input directory should be OK)

If that works, I'll patch the application and upload a new version.

Yup, that's worked, and it seems the audio and subs are in sync. When you patch it, I'll appreciate knowing cause removing spaces is obviously kinda an ugly situation.

[Vaughan Hilts]

This is going to sound really silly.. but I think I might have forgot to escape a string somewhere.

Could you try renaming your file to have no spaces in it? (Just the input file; the input directory should be OK)

If that works, I'll patch the application and upload a new version.

Yup, that's worked, and it seems the audio and subs are in sync. When you patch it, I'll appreciate knowing cause removing spaces is obviously kinda an ugly situation.

https://github.com/hilts-vaughan/UnlinkM.../tag/0.1.2

It should be fixed. It doesn't support Windows UNC Path's since those use the escape character "\" at the start and they're a pain to deal with, not sure how to in Perl. If there's serious demand, I'll revisit but using a mapped drive like it looks like you have or literally any other type should be fine. Spaces, as well.

Let me know if you have any other problems or file a ticket on GIthub.

Thanks

[DJ_Izumi]

I found another issue with the previous version, (I just came back and see you posted the update)

http://pastebin.com/wFRuz0nw

For reasons I can't understand, it's SKIPPING Episodes 1 and 13. It's only doing 2 through 12. All files most certainly have the space removed. I'll try with your new version soon.

[Vaughan Hilts]

I found another issue with the previous version, (I just came back and see you posted the update)

http://pastebin.com/wFRuz0nw

For reasons I can't understand, it's SKIPPING Episodes 1 and 13. It's only doing 2 through 12. All files most certainly have the space removed. I'll try with your new version soon.

It looks like 1 is being skipped due to missing segments. Does it play fine in some other video player? It looks like 13 is working fine, according to the log (though, the log could lie.)

If you have Skype or something, did you want to try and resolve these issues?

[DJ_Izumi]

It looks like 1 is being skipped due to missing segments. Does it play fine in some other video player? It looks like 13 is working fine, according to the log (though, the log could lie.)

If you have Skype or something, did you want to try and resolve these issues?

Sorry, been having a busy weekend but Sunday is less busy. We can chat directly if it'll help resolve faster. Episodes 1 and 13 both play fine with their OPs and EDs when played via MPC-HC and CCCP on the Windows workstation I'm using.

EDIT: Had full success on Minami-Ke Season 4 by CoalGirls using your new version, didn't have to remove any spaces. Still no jkoy with these Lain eps.

[Vaughan Hilts]

For those interested, in the issues with Lain have been resolved. If you have any other bugs, please report them to me either via PM or on Github.

Thanks everyone.

[garretn]

I guess I'm not too familiar with Windows.

The escaping issue would have been introduced when changing the way the various programs are invoked to using a plain string rather then a list for Vaughan's windows version, in perl the difference is passing things through the shell first or directly to the program. I assume this was done to support smb shares/some other windows reason?

[Vaughan Hilts]

I guess I'm not too familiar with Windows.

The escaping issue would have been introduced when changing the way the various programs are invoked to using a plain string rather then a list for Vaughan's windows version, in perl the difference is passing things through the shell first or directly to the program. I assume this was done to support smb shares/some other windows reason?

Yeah, I commented on the Github issue but that's mostly the case. Windows has some issues with open3 as well (since that's a Linux thing), so it had to go. :/

[garretn]

I got around to updating UnlinkMKV with cross platform compatibility, and also include a precompiled binary under the dist directory.

There is still no GUI with my original version, though for windows users the dist archive is portable and requires no additional setup.

[Naugas]

I was kind of surprised, almost shocked, when realizing Kodi doesn't support ordered chapters, and that the feature request for it was six years old - marked "obsolete" and closed - http://trac.kodi.tv/ticket/8811 . The new feature request is three years old - http://trac.kodi.tv/ticket/13626 - but with very little activity. Non-existent?

That unlinkmkv script didn't work well on my files, but I don't know if it's the script or my players (smplayer, vlc). Should I report it at github/issues? (Pheew, there were a lot of module dependencies fixes before it ran... a compiled binary would be nice, yes. )

[garretn]

Please do report it on github. There is a compiled binary for Windows under the dist directory, I have the ability to make them for OSX/Linux too if you so require.