Loading Local Video Files

[Syler]

Why would it be ridiculous to have a bulk delete option, where you can select the files you want to delete then delete them all with one click, rather than having to do it individually?

[mvallevand]

Sorry I thought you meant emptying the database and leaving the files.

For bulk deleting any file management tool you want will work if you delete the file from the file system. NextPVR by default is setup to remove the database entries.

Martin

[Syler]

I did try umountig the drive then restarting the server but the entries were not removed.

I am having an issue getting series to display properly. When I import the following XML it display the title, subtitle and description as Family Guy, is there something wrong with the XML?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<recording>
<filename>/mnt/Storage/Video/Series/Animated/Family Guy (Season 1-14)/family guy11/Family Guy S11E03 HDTV xvid-SaM[ettv].avi</filename>
<channel>User-Library</channel>
<status>READY</status>
<startTime>2021-01-28 00:29:01</startTime>
<endTime>2021-01-28 01:02:00</endTime>
<channel_OID></channel_OID>
<title>Family Guy</title>
<subtitle>S11E03</subtitle>
<description>Descriptio</description>
<uid>User-Library0</uid>
<firstrun>true</firstrun>
<season>12</season>
<episode>5</episode>
<genres>
<genre>Show / Game show</genre>
</genres>
</recording>

[Graham]

Why would it be ridiculous to have a bulk delete option, where you can select the files you want to delete then delete them all with one click, rather than having to do it individually?

Have you seen ... AutoRemove... and ... NoRemove... in config.xml ... https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/adv...config.xml

[Syler]

Have you seen ... AutoRemove... and ... NoRemove... in config.xml ... https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/adv...config.xml

I hadn't seen that no, thanks for pointing it out.

[Syler]

I haven't been able to complete the integration yet but I have uploaded it to github if anyone wants to play around with it

https://github.com/1Syler/nextpvr-import...ntegration

Just run the script in Linux or in windows copy what the script does. FFmpeg doesn't work in Firefox and iTunes data is not yet complete.

I am also still unable to get series to display right after uploading them?

[joeinchicago1970]

I’ve run into that exact issue with file names and spaces when working on automating media libraries. Usually, when scripts or XML configs reject a file path because of spaces, it’s all about how the path is interpreted. I’ve had luck just using the full path with spaces and not adding any quotes or %20 encoding, but it really depends on how the specific program reads the XML. Sometimes, like Martin said, adding a backslash before each space (\ ) can help, but in my case, this trick only worked for some shell scripts and not for XML-based configs. If organizing multiple video file formats and automating internal workflows gets to be a pain, I found some extra tips for file management and editing from https://www.movavi.com/screen-recorder-mac/. They cover a lot of the hiccups I hit with video files on Mac and Linux.