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Automatic Ripping Machine (ARM) with separate "rip" and "transcode" machines? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by fizbin@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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This should be possible, but I'm not finding any discussion on how:

I've got an underpowered old 2-core linux box with a DVD drive and a tiny 4GB of ram in it and a separate 16-core linux machine with 128GB of ram with no DVD drive. For a variety of reasons, moving the DVD drive would be a real pain, so I'd like to do all the raw ripping of DVDs on the machine with the drive, and all the transcoding on the machine without a DVD drive.

I see that ARM has hooks for custom scripts to run when ripping is complete, so I could write a bash script that would be invoked whenever the machine ripping raw data off discs is finished and transfer the raw data over, but how would I then tell ARM on the transcoding machine "okay, you've got more work to do"?

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[–] servergeek82@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cron script to check X directory every 10 minutes. Wait 5 (in case it's still transferring a file). Handbrake cli hook transcode and move file. Send a notification when stated and done.

[–] bombero_kmn@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey are you familiar with inotify? It might be a more efficient and effective solution than running a script every 10 minutes.

I only learned about it on a podcast a few weeks ago and I've been playing with it this week, replacing similar "blind check" scripts like you describe.

[–] servergeek82@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Personally I am not familiar with it. I haven't ripped an ISO of Linux in ages. But it looks like it work for what the OP is looking for.