Recording filesize

[Captain-DJ]

Hello!

In the wishlist i posted a question about an tool that tells me the file size of an scheduled recording.

Now i made an small tool to calculate this.
It was written with "Profan" ( http://www.profan.de )
It is like BASIC.

How it work:
It must be called as an custom task.
Then it will be copy the gbpvr.db3 to an other folder and calls a batch file.
The batch file use sqlite3.exe to extract the schedule recording infos to an TXT file. If the TXT file was generated, my tool open this file and calculate the time for all scheduled recordings.
For this it use an number in a ini file (before make a small recording, and calculate the size for 1 minute and add this to the ini)

It dosn´t look to the options "medium" or "high" quality !

My tool show an popup (time is configurable) and close then.
You can use True-Type-Fonts and config the size in the ini.
Also the popup position and the size can set in the ini.

The ini file you can set:
GBPVR folder
(the tool have a non changeable folder at the moment)
Diskdrive to check
Filesize for 1 minute
popup delay
popupsize and position
popupcolor
Font (True Type)
FontSize
Fontcolor
warningcolor (for low diskspace)

At the moment the tool is in german only, but i can translate the text to english, if anyone want this tool.

Anyone interesting to test (and use) it ?

[martint123]

The biggest problem for me would be that the recording size is dependant on the broadcaster. OK, with something like an analogue PVR150 you can estimate the bytes/second or whatever - but with digital, gbpvr just dumps the data from the tuner to disk. This can vary enormously with digital - bit rates, image size, SD/HD. Even during a recording that datarate can change - during commercials etc.....

For me - 1 hour of pvr150 at medium quality is around 1.8GB
1 hour of lowish broadcast quality of digital 1.1gb
1 hour of moderate quality digital 1.6gb
1 hour of broadcast HD 10gb

a bit of a variation I'm afraid.

[pBS]

typically broadcasters don't vary the rates of a series/show much within itself, so may want to estimate only if you have previous recordings of same show, as only then would you be somewhat accurate..[even then variations could be 10%+]
or if you could determine the framesize, 1080i/720p/480p/480i that would narrow it down alot...
it's more of an art than a science calculating the 'future' size of anything...
only with similar sources [previous recordings] is a guess even close to accurate...


i'd much rather have a mode in video library to see what existing shows sizes are to determine the size myself, allowing for variations...
kinda like a 'details' mode in explorer...just filename and size as date is already in the filename...
plus it would make it nicer to go in and delete say, only large old shows when need some space... [as you could then see size as you deleted]

[Captain-DJ]

I made this tool for me because i have only an 30GB disk in my laptop.
I have an USB DVB-S Box and i must use the original software (see my signature)
So the quality level that are available in GBPVR are not used.

In the database gbpvr.db3 will be the quality level stored.
So there is a way to calculate with this levels, same as before, but with 3 (or more) values stored in the ini file.

My tool only "look" to the database, not to other parameters like the videosize.