The key feature of this utility is skimming the epguides.com and extracting a season and episode number, to be used in file naming...
It uses epguides.com to check episode information. It compares some information to data from Zap2It. This is kinda North America oriented, but I will try to incorporate information from other regions of the world in later releases...
Since this is a beta, I would suggest using ZRename on a couple of files Manually.. (that means not from the postprocessing.bat)
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Unzip the two files in this zip into your '...Third Party\ZRename' folder. Create it if it doesn't exist.
ZRename assumes:
that you will also have sqlite3 in the same directory as itself
GB-PVR is located c:\Program files\devnz\gbpvr. If it isn't, when you have ZRename expanded, double-click on the GB-PVR folder and find the .db3 file
Also, there may be some trouble if you do not have I-XMLTV installed. I haven't had a chance to uninstall it and test it with the default Zap2it data.
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When you open ZRename you will see a fairly lean GUI. In manual mode, it just sits and waits. Double-click the Input File text box and you can browse to a recorded file that GB-PVR has just recorded, and is also still in the database.
I've done that with an episode of 'Star Trek Enterprise'. After I selected it,
it automatically checked the database for the episode title,
checked the internet for a match on the episode title,
and then retrieved Season and Episode values.
Finally, it previews the new filename,
building it with the Program Title, Season and Episode number, and Episode Title.
Clicking 'Commit' will rename the file and adjust the reference in the GB-PVR database.
If you click the 'more' button
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You'll see a few checkboxes. Here's what they mean...
Episode Number Lookup - unchecked will defeat the internet lookup and use the Air Date if available...
No Spaces in Filenames - This is something that seems to be a standard with sharing files, no spaces means no silly troubles with long file names
Ep Num in Caps - Just to be neat, the whole season and episode number is the same size letters to numbers...
I know that many people will be wanting to have some modifications to formatting. I will try to work it out. Here's some reasoning for a couple of conventions already in place.
It may be a Canadian thing to have a date start with a year. (It took me years to feel comfortable with that) but when you have Year - Numeric Month - and Day, files will automatically sort in ascending order.
There are other ways of representing the season and episode number but SxxExx is very common. Another is SxEE (2x12 - Season 2, Ep 12). I will be adding the option to choose between the two most common type...
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If you feel that it's doing a good job and you want to start using it in the PostProcessing.bat, here's the syntax....
Place this anywhere that the file extension does not change (eg with a transcoder, from mpg to avi)
If you are going to transcode from mpg to avi for instance, you will have to do some fancy batch file wrangling, or you can wait a bit while I integrate ZRename into ZProcess. It's my intention to have ZProcess take care of all the file renaming as it steps through all the processes...
I've tried it multiple times now and, every time I install EWA, I just end up with the default web admin.
It's very odd. I've followed the directions exactly. I deleted all files and folders in \web folder EXCEPT Bin. Next I deleted AjaxPro2.dll, Rss.dll and ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll from the web\bin folder. Unzipped the gbweb-enhanced.v60.zip file contents to the web folder. I was NOT prompted to overwrite any files.
I then refreshed my web admin at http://localhost:4666/gbpvr/index.aspx and logged back into config.
Each time I get the the same screen. I want to config vlc to stream my recordings. The default web admin does everything else I need, but I can't get video to stream. Music streams fine, but my videos just open a vlc player and it remains blank.
Any ideas? I know I'm missing something really simple, So I feel kinda dumb asking. I've just tried so many times to do this over the past couple months, I've broken down to asking for help :-)
I'm using GB to record my tv shows from a dvb source. When I play the files back without transcoding to xvid, it seems to play fine. However, if I transcode to xvid (by the settintgs in the config.exe utility) the audio is out of sync. It starts out just slightly out of sync, and by the end of the recording it's a few (around 6) seconds out.
I read some info that this might have to do with the way the dvb stream works, and that the file might need to be 'repaired' before transcoding. If this is the case, is there anyone who can help me set this up, either in postprocessing.bat or otherwise?
I also think this is why comskip wasn't working for me either, as it would detect commercials where there were none, and miss out when there was one. I'm not an expert though, so if someone could lend me a hand here, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Young and the Restless was recording and looks like it made it to the end.
Next recording Failed to start.
Status shows Young and the Restless still recording.
Rebooted computer to clear.
GBPVR UI slow to come up after reboot.
GBPVR showed old pending recordings but then cleared them.
Another thing that may be unrelated is that I saw in the log that the post processing was attempted. Everything in the config processing panel is none, not checked, no process except for the processing times.
I am in the midst of trying to use EventGhost, replacement mce driver and a ms mce remote. Well it's boiled down to the replacement mce driver causing my system to lock up so I have to go back to the default driver. Everything I've read says that I will not be able to configure the buttons without it :mad:
So I'm here to see if it is possible for gbpvr to help in some way. I notice that on the DVD & Remote tab of the config tool that there are options to pick a remote.
As a first step (and possibly only step) I was wondering since gbpvr can recognize the mce remote if it would be possible for gbpvr to have some configuration of which mce remote button signals would kick off a keystroke from gbpvr. Not sure I am being clear in my request but am here to clarify points if necessary.
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OK, let's check out what they've got available then...
3.
D.O.A.
£14.99
4.
Serenity
£16.99
5.
The Holiday
£19.99
humm, seems a tad expensive. I wonder how much it is to buy the Serenity DVD I wonder?
