I’m in the process of learning powershell and trying to get some work done as well. I’m working on a similar project, but using FFMPEG for the conversion process. I noticed in your script when you test to see if Handbrake is installed you end the “Get-ItemProperty” with “.’Default’ – replace” I understand the search in the registry and the replace at the end, but what does .’Default’ do? I can’t seem to find any reference to it anywhere. Nice script!

Tks, Jeff..

This is just what I was looking for. I am excited for the deleting of source file after processing listed in the wish list. Keep up the great work on all your powershell scripts.

-= Symalla

It seems that you could delete the source file simply by adding a line underneath the “New-BalloonTip” line ending in “Encoding Completed” with the following:

Remove-Item $file

Someone who knows more about Powershell, feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

I don’t understand how to add/change the .PARAMETER value to point to the Video folder I need to convert. Also, I need to convert .avi and .mp4 to .mkv. What do I need to change in the script to do this?
Thanks

Pat, Great script it works as intended and is saving me a ton of work digitizing my DVD Collection for use on my AppleTV. I made a few changes on your script. There are a few things I would like to share.
If your Power Management plan is set to balanced or power save your computer will sleep while this script is running and halt any progress in your queue. This Function fixes that
####
function SetPowerPlan([string]$PreferredPlan)
{
#”High performance”, “Balanced”, “Power saver”
Write-Host “Setting Powerplan to $PreferredPlan”
$guid = (Get-WmiObject -Class win32_powerplan -Namespace root\cimv2\power -Filter “ElementName=’$PreferredPlan'”).InstanceID.tostring()
$regex = [regex]”{(.*?)}$”
$newpowerVal = $regex.Match($guid).groups[1].value

# setting power setting to high performance
powercfg -S $newpowerVal
}
####

Also when you are building your Bubble notifications you shouldn’t be calling this line every time.
####
New-BalloonTip -BalloonTipIcon
####
This is causing the system to create a new icon every time you run this New-BallonTip and fills your system tray up with icons.

Instead Scrap your function and create the balloontip once and then change the text, Title, Icon and show as needed.

example:
#############

$balloon = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon
$path = Get-Process -id $pid | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Path
$icon = [System.Drawing.Icon]::ExtractAssociatedIcon($path)
$balloon.Icon = $icon

$files = (Get-ChildItem “$dir\*” -include *.avi,*.mkv,*.ogm,*.wmv)
if ($files.length -ge 1){
ForEach ($file in $files){
[string] $justName = $file.name.substring(0,$file.name.length-4)
if (!(Test-Path “$justname.mp4”)){
$balloon.BalloonTipTitle = “Encoding”
$balloon.BalloonTipText = “Encoding: $file”
$balloon.BalloonTipText += “`n”
$balloon.Visible = $true
$balloon.ShowBalloonTip(10000)
[string] $handbrake = $handbrakeclishortpath + ” -i `”$file`” -o `”$justName.mp4`” –preset=`”AppleTV 3`” –subtitle-forced”
Invoke-Expression $handbrake
$balloon.BalloonTipText += “Completed: $justname.mp4 ”
$balloon.BalloonTipTitle = ‘Encode Complete’
$balloon.Visible = $true
$balloon.ShowBalloonTip(10000)
}
else{
$balloon.BalloonTipText += “$justName.mp4 already exists”
$balloon.BalloonTipText += “`n”
$balloon.BalloonTip1Title = “Duplicate Filename”
$balloon.Visible = $true
$balloon.ShowBalloonTip(10000)
}
}
}

################

Note: The += will allow you to keep adding the notification message it is limited (can’t remember the exact count) to something like 250 char. Also the “`n” creates a new line in the Notification bubble.

as you can see above I also added a preset since that is what I prefer to use when I encode.

I will be Looking at two other thing when I get some free time. I have a Powershell script to rename MKV files to the parent folders name (removing “_” and replacing them with ” ” as it runs) and move them into another directory for processing by your script. I also have a script that I have been playing with to add a context menu to the icon in the system tray giving you a “Exit” and “Show Last Notification” options. I am going to attempt to integrate both of the above scripts into yours.

Script works great. But my goal is for the new MP4 files to replace the original MTS files in my personal video library. I need the MP4 file to retain the original Date Created tag (file property) and/or have the new file name appended with a suffix of the original file create date. In other words, I’d like to know when the video was originally taken. Can the script be updated for this?

I am getting following gerror whe trying to convert media file.

Invoke-Expression : Missing expression after unary operator ‘-‘.
At C:\Software\New-HandBrakeConversion.v1.3\New-HandBrakeConversion.ps1:144 char:30
+ Invoke-Expression <<<< $handbrake
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (-:String) [Invoke-Expression], ParseException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingExpressionAfterOperator,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeExpressionCommand

I get an error. I have handbrake and it is current and works well manually.

Processing C:\Users\MSI\Desktop\Leathal Weapon\Lethal Weapon S02E06.mkv
*******************************************************************************

-i : The term ‘-i’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:2
+ -i “C:\Users\MSI\Desktop\Leathal Weapon\Lethal Weapon S02E06.mkv” -o …
+ ~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (-i:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

I had the same issue. It seems as if the the registry key for the App Path has changed.
I had to change line 105 from

[…] -path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Handbrake.exe” […]

to

[…] -path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Handbrake” -erroraction […]

Hi,

I’ve been using HandBreak for some time now and still can’t figure out why every time I drop a folder into the Source Selection and then select Add All (the entire folder) to the queue and RUN the queue, it always runs all but one of the files that were in the folder.

SO: If I have 10 files in a folder that I want to convert to .mp4 files, and I drop the folder into the Source Selection and Add All to the queue and RUN the queue, it only runs 9 files and not all 10 that were in the folder. It skips the first file in the list every time.

It does this EVERY TIME. Any help would be greatly appreciated.