Hi10p Transcoder Usage Guide

Here’s a quick usage guide for the hi10p transcoder utility. I included screenshots and annotated them with things to note. Overall using the transcoder utility is straight forward. The step-by-step guide follows:

1. Select the type of source to use. If you have a single file or just a few files to transcode, select the File(s) option. The Directory option is there for extremely convenient batch processing where you have a lot of hi10p files isolated in its own directory.

2a. If the File(s) option was selected, a file selection dialog will pop up after clicking on Select…. Just select the file or files to transcode. The only valid type of file are mkv files at the moment.

2b. If the Directory option was selected, a directory selection dialog will pop up after slicking on Select…. Note that only mkv files will be processed in the directory. So if there are other non-mkv files like text files, etc, they will be not touched.

3. Now that the transcoding source has been selected, it’s time to select the destination folder.

4. Just navigate to the desired directory to save the transcoded files to. Note that the destination directory can be the same as the source directory since the transcoded files will have a [8bit-h264] tag appended to the end of the file name.

5. Click on the Transcode button to start the process. Note that the transcoding operation will take a while to complete depending on how many files need to be transcoded, how many cores the computer has, and the speed of each core.

6. A progress overlay will be displayed during the transcoding operation. The information displayed includes the current file being processed and the raw ffmpeg status output. There is also the option to cancel the operation. Any successfully transcoded files will remain, but the current partially transcoded file will be removed automatically.

7. The progress overlay will disappear when the transcoding operation completes.

Once you’re done you can do another batch or quit. One thing to note: closing the utility while in the middle of a transcoding operation does the same thing as canceling.

Hopefully you find this guide useful!