Hey there - love the idea behind the software as it makes things way more efficient.
Just got it a couple of days ago. For me, it works with your simple preset file. When I try to use a customer one from Handbrake, I set one up and chose to export, which I assume is the correct. It accepts the file; however, when I run it when the operation completes it says
**An error occurred while calculating total sizes - file does not exist:
Total size of raw unencoded files - 0 Bytes Total size of encoded files - 0 Bytes
Deleting raw unencoded files...
Raw unencoded files deleted.
Encoded files are located in: D:\Working\Video\Rips\Hboutput\handymkv_2026-02-08_15-22-55**
Then when I go into the directory, there is nothing there. I believe it is creating the mkv files, but then it doesn't make the mp4 files and deletes the mkv files (as expected).
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Clizby8mo agoOf course...
I am on version 0.1.16.
When you are asking for the config, do you want my handymkv config AND the preset file I'm using? Essentially all I really want to do is add deinterlacing to remove some lines on the rips (but of course the export json has a bunch of other stuff).
dmars80478mo agoI mean your handymkv config.
Clizby8mo ago{ "encoding_params": { "handbrake_preset": "GPU with deinterlace (1)", "preset_file": "D:\Temp\Preset2.json" }, "mkv_output_directory": "D:\Working\Video\Rips\mkvoutput", "handbrake_output_directory": "D:\Working\Video\Rips\Hboutput", "delete_raw_mkv_files": true }
dmars80478mo ago@Clizby would it be possible for you to upload your preset file? Once I have that I can actually execute your use case. Sorry I should have asked you for both from the beginning.
Clizby8mo agoHey no worries at all. I think I was just using the Fast 1080 preset and I believe that all I changed was the deinterlace settings.
{ "PresetList": [ { "AlignAVStart": true, "AudioCopyMask": [ "copy:aac" ], "AudioEncoderFallback": "av_aac", "AudioLanguageList": [], "AudioList": [ { "AudioBitrate": 160, "AudioCompressionLevel": 0, "AudioEncoder": "av_aac", "AudioMixdown": "stereo", "AudioNormalizeMixLevel": false, "AudioSamplerate": "auto", "AudioTrackQualityEnable": false, "AudioTrackQuality": -1, "AudioTrackGainSlider": 0, "AudioTrackDRCSlider": 0 } ], "AudioSecondaryEncoderMode": true, "AudioTrackSelectionBehavior": "first", "AudioTrackNamePassthru": true, "AudioAutomaticNamingBehavior": "unnamed", "ChapterMarkers": true, "ChildrenArray": [], "Default": false, "FileFormat": "av_mp4", "Folder": false, "FolderOpen": false, "Optimize": false, "Mp4iPodCompatible": false, "PictureCropMode": 0, "PictureBottomCrop": 0, "PictureLeftCrop": 6, "PictureRightCrop": 6, "PictureTopCrop": 2, "PictureDARWidth": 629, "PictureDeblockPreset": "off", "PictureDeblockTune": "medium", "PictureDeblockCustom": "strength=strong:thresh=20:blocksize=8", "PictureDeinterlaceFilter": "yadif", "PictureCombDetectPreset": "default", "PictureCombDetectCustom": "", "PictureDeinterlacePreset": "bob", "PictureDeinterlaceCustom": "", "PictureDenoiseCustom": "", "PictureDenoiseFilter": "off", "PictureSharpenCustom": "", "PictureSharpenFilter": "off", "PictureSharpenPreset": "medium", "PictureSharpenTune": "none", "PictureDetelecine": "off", "PictureDetelecineCustom": "", "PictureColorspacePreset": "off", "PictureColorspaceCustom": "", "PictureChromaSmoothPreset": "off", "PictureChromaSmoothTune": "none", "PictureChromaSmoothCustom": "", "PictureItuPAR": false, "PictureKeepRatio": true, "PicturePAR": "auto", "PicturePARWidth": 8, "PicturePARHeight": 9, "PictureWidth": 1920, "PictureHeight": 1080, "PictureUseMaximumSize": true, "PictureAllowUpscaling": false, "PictureForceHeight": 0, "PictureForceWidth": 0, "PicturePadMode": "none", "PicturePadTop": 0, "PicturePadBottom": 0, "PicturePadLeft": 0, "PicturePadRight": 0, "PicturePadColor": "black", "PresetName": "GPU with deinterlace (1)", "Type": 1, "SubtitleAddCC": false, "SubtitleAddForeignAudioSearch": true, "SubtitleAddForeignAudioSubtitle": false, "SubtitleBurnBehavior": "foreign", "SubtitleBurnBDSub": false, "SubtitleBurnDVDSub": false, "SubtitleLanguageList": [], "SubtitleTrackSelectionBehavior": "none", "SubtitleTrackNamePassthru": true, "VideoAvgBitrate": 0, "VideoColorRange": "limited", "VideoColorMatrixCode": 0, "VideoEncoder": "vce_h264", "VideoFramerate": "30", "VideoFramerateMode": "pfr", "VideoGrayScale": false, "VideoScaler": "swscale", "VideoPreset": "balanced", "VideoTune": "", "VideoProfile": "auto", "VideoLevel": "auto", "VideoOptionExtra": "", "VideoQualityType": 2, "VideoQualitySlider": 22, "VideoMultiPass": false, "VideoTurboMultiPass": false, "VideoPasshtruHDRDynamicMetadata": "all", "x264UseAdvancedOptions": false, "PresetDisabled": false, "MetadataPassthru": true } ], "VersionMajor": 67, "VersionMicro": 0, "VersionMinor": 0 }
dmars80478mo agoUnfortunately I am not able to reproduce this issue. I did just cut a new release of this project. That may give you better error logging or may fix your issue entirely. Let me know. Thanks.
Clizby8mo agoThanks for the attempt. Unfortunately, after updating to 0.2.1, I get the exact same error. It runs through the process and appears to delete the raw encoded files, but the encoded ones are not where it says they are (just an empty folder).
Title Disc Ripping Encoding
C1_t00 0 Complete Complete C2_t01 0 Complete Complete C3_t02 0 Complete Complete C4_t03 0 Complete Complete
Operation Complete. Time Elapsed - 11m33s An error occurred while calculating total sizes - file does not exist: D:\Working\Video\Rips\Hboutput\handymkv_2026-02-26_18-01-48\Show_S9_D1\C1_t00.mp4
Total size of raw unencoded files - 0 Bytes Total size of encoded files - 0 Bytes
Deleting raw unencoded files...
Raw unencoded files deleted.
Encoded files are located in: D:\Working\Video\Rips\Hboutput\handymkv_2026-02-26_18-01-48
C:>handymkv -v
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HandyMKV version 0.2.1
Hello! Thanks for your interest in the project. Would you mind providing your config?
Could you also let me know what version you are using?
handymkv -v