What's deleted when a recording is deleted?

[kendrak24]

Hi,

I've added some stuff to PostProcessing.bat to generate a preview image of the recorded show. The resulting jpg image is stored in the same directory as the recording, and shows up nicely in the recording list view (if in "large" mode).
However, when I delete the show, the image is not deleted. Not a big problem, but would it be possible to delete everything that has the same base-name as the show (e.g. CSI_20070701_22002300)? It does delete all comskip related files (.log and .txt) so I thought that when deleting a show it deleted <showname>.*...


TIA


P.S

For those of you that are interested, and know your way around a batch file, this is in my PostProcessing.bat to generate the preview image. (This has maybe already been posted, but what the hey...)
As you can see I select a snapshot image 8 minutes into the show, so you may want to change that to your liking. You need ffmpeg for this, but I think it is (was?) distributed with gbpvr, correct me if I'm wrong sub...
The resulting image is in the same resolution/size as the video, but it is scaled down when displayed in the recordings view. If you're picky, you could of course process the image further with some other tool to resize it to use less disk space...


@echo off
REM Enable Command Extensions
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS

REM Extract show name

REM Expand argument to get rid of any quotes
set tmpshow=%~1

REM Strip .mpg from filename
set show=%tmpshow:~0,-4%

REM Call ffmpeg
REM -i = input mpg
REM -f = output file type
REM -ss = where to start in mpg (hh:mms) Higher value means longer processtime,
REM since ffmpeg seems to process up to this point first...
REM -t = how long part of mpg to process
"d:\programs\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -i "%show%.mpg" -f mjpeg -ss 00:08:00 -t 0.001 "%show%.jpg"

[dark_half]

Look in the config.xml and try adding jpg to the following line.

Code:

<DeleteAdditionalExtensions>srt,txt,log,d2a,edl,csv,bat,wme,vprj,logo.txt,dvbsub,smi</DeleteAdditionalExtensions>

[kendrak24]

Thanks. that did it!

[kram_0]

Hey, thanks for that image grab tip kendrak24!
I'll have to give that one a go.

[sub]

There is also a builtin mechanism for grabbing a show image during playback, that works much like the batch file above. During video playback you can press ^T to grab a thumbnail. This does have the advantage of being able to specifiy what you want to see in that thumbnail (ie, do it while the title is on the screen etc).

Unfortunately both of these use ffmpeg which results in ffmpeg having to play the file up to that point in the file before it can grab the thumbnail. ie, the further through the file it is, the longer it takes to generate the thumbnail.

I havnt said anything about this feature because I was hoping to find a better way to get a thumbnail without the delay, but I havnt yet.

[jksmurf]

Look in the config.xml and try adding jpg to the following line.

Code:

<DeleteAdditionalExtensions>srt,txt,log,d2a,edl,csv,bat,wme,vprj,logo.txt,dvbsub,smi</DeleteAdditionalExtensions>

sub,

Just wondering if "dat" should be added to that list, all my recording dirs have a file with .dat extensions (not the mpg).

ART HEIST_20071103_00300230.mpg.dat

k.

[sub]

I dont have any of those files. If whatever plugins or utilities you're using is creating these dat files, then you can probably add the extension to <DeleteAdditionalExtensions> in config.xml.

[baj1]

Do you have to turn this feature on somewhere? I have the "<DeleteAdditional..." line in my config.xml, but the Comskip files remain after I've deleted a show. ???

[sub]

Where are you deleting them from? This logic only occurs in the Recordings screen, not with the Video Library 'Delete' funtion.

[baj1]

Oh, good to know. Bummer though. I do most of my viewing/deleting from the Video Library.