scan-only option

[ohnsac]

It would be pretty nifty if HandBrakeCLI had an option to only perform the 'scan' pass. The output can be pretty helpful, particularly in batch process where you want to get information to use in a second call.

For example:
HandBrakeCLI -i dvdvideo.iso | script-to-parse-scan-output
HandBrakeCLI -i dvdvideo.iso -o dvdvideo.mp4 "options based upon previous script output"

[rhester]

-t 0

Rodney

[ohnsac]

OH, neat. Thanks!

[secretsubscr]

Hello
I'm using windows 7 and I haven't been able to redirect the output of the scan to a text file. This is what I'm doing:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Handbrake>handbrakecli -i D:\dvd\ALIEN_3_DISC1\VIDEO_TS\ -t 0 > C:\output.txt
Is it possible to capture the output.
What I'd like to do is automatically create MKV files that include all available audio and subtitle tracks. I want to run the scan, parse the output, and run the conversion.

Thanks

[mduell]

The information you desire goes to stderr, not stdout.

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handbrakecli -i D:\dvd\ALIEN_3_DISC1\VIDEO_TS\ -t 0 2> C:\output.txt

should work.

Or you could just specify a large number of tracks and you'll get the ones that exist.

[secretsubscr]

Ah. Thanks for info.

[Troy Cheek]

In nightly build 3380, I noticed this:

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--scan    Scan selected title only.

[Deleted User 11865]

In nightly build 3380, I noticed this:

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--scan    Scan selected title only.

Correct. Now you can scan just a single title instead of all titles - this way added several weeks ago, IIRC.

So you do something like this:

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-t 28 --scan

to scan title 28.