stupid PostProcessing.bat question..

[snagglewest]

Ok, the end goal is to do a bit of post processing with handbrake and then copy the newly created .mp4 to a network share.

I've found several scripts which would fit the bill and with a bit of modification, they work great for renaming and post processing to .mp4. Got all that working fine.

The copy part has me stumped. For the life of me, I can't get it to copy the file to the network share.

Just to eliminate all the variables, I made a completely stripped down PostProcessing.bat with just the copy command and a little logging so i could track it. I got it to work form the command line, but it doesn't work from the post processing after recording a file. The output from the log file works fine in cmd too, so I think it's right.

What am I doing wrong?


PostProcessing.bat
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@ECHO on
ECHO postprocessing started on %date% %time% >> postprocessing.log

set NSHelper=C:\Progra~1\NPVR\NScriptHelper.exe

ECHO xcopy "%~f1" "Z:\Movies-Video-DVDs\Recorded_TV" >> postprocessing.log

xcopy "%~f1" "Z:\Movies-Video-DVDs\Recorded_TV"

ECHO Post Processing finished on %date% %time% >> postprocessing.log

:end
echo Finished.
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postprocessing.log results
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postprocessing started on Sat 07/23/2011 21:50:01.04
xcopy "D:\Manual Recordings\Default_20110723_21492150.ts" "Z:\Movies-Video-DVDs\Recorded_TV"
Post Processing finished on Sat 07/23/2011 21:50:01.09
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[mvallevand]

Your Z: drive is probably not mapped on the Local System account that the NPVR Recording Service uses. Maybe try \\ip\sharename instead of Z:

Martin

[johnsonx42]

I added a note about this to the scripts section of the tech support sticky.

[snagglewest]

Well, I've figured out it's a permissions problem with NRecord.exe running as a "SYSTEM" user. (Win XPSP3) The Folder "Recorded_TV", which I'm trying to copy to, is shared on "Server", a Win2000 box.

I've tried multiple combinations of the copy command.

copy "%~f1" "Z:\Movies-Video-DVDs\Recorded_TV" (mapped to the drive letter)
copy "%~f1" "\\Server\Recorded_TV" (the share name)
copy "%~f1" "\\Server\500gb\Movies-Video-DVDs\Recorded_TV" (the literal path)
copy "%~f1" "\\192.168.1.100\500gb\Movies-Video-DVDs\Recorded_TV" (the IP just for giggles)

The first 3 work from the command prompt, but not from PostProcessing.bat. (The IP choked the command prompt)

I've also tried multiple variations of the net user command to map the drive as another user with no luck.

Any other ideas?

[johnsonx42]

you need to grant "Everyone" Full Access permissions to BOTH the directory and the share on the Win2000 box.

mapping the drive as a different user won't help at all.

[snagglewest]

I've got both shared to "everyone" with full permissions. Maybe there's another way around this... is there a way to call an external .bat from the PostProcessing.bat that would run as the local user???

[mvallevand]

You have other options, you can change the recording service to run as another user, and I have written a utility called ShareHelper (search these forums for it) that runs as a service that allows you to use mapped drives and named shares at the Local System level.

Martin