Yet Another RenameRecordings Batch files

[vgossain]

So I adjusted my setup to have "new" episodes of a series be appended with a "*" through mc2xml (For people interested in this functionality, you can find it here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...t-episodes)

However, this appending of "*" caused the renaming batch script to fail. In fact, it ended up removing the recording entries from the db completely. I think it is likely something to do with the "*" being a special character. I ended up modifying the batch files to remove the "*" if it exists to prevent this issue from happening. It may be good to add this (or perhaps a cleaner way of doing it) to the batch file in case others run into this.

This is the line I added in the "Clear the rubbish out of the title" section:

REM Remove trailing * for new episodes
if "%title:~-1%"=="*" set title=%title:~0,-2%

If it ends with a "*", remove the last two characters

[SANGER_A2]

So I adjusted my setup to have "new" episodes of a series be appended with a "*" through mc2xml (For people interested in this functionality, you can find it here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...t-episodes)

However, this appending of "*" caused the renaming batch script to fail. In fact, it ended up removing the recording entries from the db completely. I think it is likely something to do with the "*" being a special character. I ended up modifying the batch files to remove the "*" if it exists to prevent this issue from happening. It may be good to add this (or perhaps a cleaner way of doing it) to the batch file in case others run into this.

This is the line I added in the "Clear the rubbish out of the title" section:

REM Remove trailing * for new episodes
if "%title:~-1%"=="*" set title=%title:~0,-2%

If it ends with a "*", remove the last two characters

Or you could try using "set subtitle=%subtitle:*=-%" and it SHOULD remove the asterisks from the titles.

[pBS]

use "set subtitle=%subtitle: *=%" to Remove it instead of replacing it with a dash...
[notice i included the space before * so it replaces as a group, don't worry it won't replace single spaces elsewhere]

that process should be used on all title names as many have the */new mod..
there are also more bad char substitutions that are needed as well,i'll try to find my list..

and use this to detect running processes without any external programs...[tasklist available by default in xp thru win7]

Code:

set image=ffmpeg.exe
rem checks if %image% running and sets %errorlevel% 1 if it isn't...
@TASKLIST|findstr /I /B /c:"%image% ">NUL
@if %errorlevel% equ 0 @echo %image% is Running!!

from my batch tips page...
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...s-path-too!

[SANGER_A2]

So I adjusted my setup to have "new" episodes of a series be appended with a "*" through mc2xml (For people interested in this functionality, you can find it here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...t-episodes)

However, this appending of "*" caused the renaming batch script to fail. In fact, it ended up removing the recording entries from the db completely. I think it is likely something to do with the "*" being a special character. I ended up modifying the batch files to remove the "*" if it exists to prevent this issue from happening. It may be good to add this (or perhaps a cleaner way of doing it) to the batch file in case others run into this.

This is the line I added in the "Clear the rubbish out of the title" section:

REM Remove trailing * for new episodes
if "%title:~-1%"=="*" set title=%title:~0,-2%

If it ends with a "*", remove the last two characters

Good idea.

TBH I've moved on to MediaPortal instead of NextPVR now. I got fed up with all the reliability issues etc.