Rename Recording

[dshoup]

Thanks again! 'Worked like a charm. Yet another reason to hate Microsoft...

[humpty]

Where EXACTLY does the episode information come from? I have a bunch of files with the old naming convention of "Airline_20051227_09301000.mpg" for example that I have moved from my old 800MHz machine to a new install of GBPVR on a more suitable unit.

I did an "Export Recordings" and an Import, but the XML file that it created was blank from the old machine even though all of the episodes are there (and the Video Archive database picked up all the information).

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I want to have My Videos be able to recognize my episodes automatically as I have over 200 shows PVR'd that I would like your application to rename.

Thanks!

[turkey]

all of the information comes from the database, so i dont think this utility will work for you. That naming convention that you quoted only has the name of the show in it, which GBPVR would match with the episode name in the database. Once that database is gone, there is no way to know which Airline episode is which.

If you still have the old database and computer, you can rename them on that setup before copying them over to the new computer. That's the only way i can think of doing it.

[humpty]

all of the information comes from the database, so i dont think this utility will work for you. That naming convention that you quoted only has the name of the show in it, which GBPVR would match with the episode name in the database. Once that database is gone, there is no way to know which Airline episode is which.

If you still have the old database and computer, you can rename them on that setup before copying them over to the new computer. That's the only way i can think of doing it.

Am I just to rename the files in their folders? I am not sure I understand what you are suggesting. I thought that somewhere on my old machine in a database a record would link the file name "airline-...." to the episode number and episode title since they do appear on the old system properly.

I do still have the old machine that I can boot up again, but I did take the media drive out. I am trying to avoid manually renaming all of the files with the s01e01 format for MyVideos to properly get the info.

[turkey]

Am I just to rename the files in their folders?

yes, but on the old machine, with this utility.

I thought that somewhere on my old machine in a database a record would link the file name "airline-...." to the episode number and episode title since they do appear on the old system properly.

True. Set up the old machine with renamerecordings, rename them there, and then transfer the newly named files over to the new machine.

Do you want to import the info to the new install of GBPVR? Or do you want to just rename the actual files. The first, this wont help, if the second, then do this:
1)download renamerecording from here
2)unzip into the gbpvr directory
3)on the windows command line, type in: RenameRecording.exe -t
That should rename all of the existing files if they are in the database. If it doesnt work, let me know...i have another way of doing it.

[humpty]

I will give that a try tomorrow... thanks for your help!

[ZaDDaZ]

This is all assuming that your old database still has the records in it for the recordings in question. If you ever try to rename a file manually, GBPVR will delete the record and it is eternally unrecoverable... Episode information for shows where the data in the GBPVR database has been deleted shows up in Video Archiver because it makes copies of the recording info in its own database based on the file name. One thing that is bad about renaming recordings since ultimately, there are 2 records in the VA database for each recording.

I have never used the Import/Export function, so I am not familiar with it.

I would recommend getting the files renamed on the previous server, but if you have ever ran GBPVR on it without your media drive and did not backup your GBPVR.mdb file, then all the records will more than likely be deleted. In that case, there is little that can be done, short of manually renaming them all yourself.... If you do have a backup or have not ran GBPVR on the old machine and renaming goes well, you have 2 options. If you use Video Archiver, you can copy the entries for these shows to the Video Archiver database and just copy the files over. If not, you will to stop GBPVR on both machines, open up both GBPVR.mdb databases, copy the appropriate records and files over and fix any path names in the target database.

I would recommend the Video Archiver method as it doesn't count on paths or anything.

[omaha_jeff]

How does one use RecordingsManager?
Do you put in PostProcessing.bat or do you simply schedule it to run at given times? I've run it from the command line and it renamed my files as prescribed.

Also, if I enable comskip/comclean in the .xml settings, do I need to turn off the auto-comskip options in GBPVR?

Also, how would I get my programs transcoded? Would I let GBPVR do it via it's post processing settings or does it need to be done another way?

Thanks.

[turkey]

How does one use RecordingsManager?
Do you put in PostProcessing.bat or do you simply schedule it to run at given times?

I run it in postprocessing.bat by adding this line:
recordingsmanager %1

Also, if I enable comskip/comclean in the .xml settings, do I need to turn off the auto-comskip options in GBPVR?

If you have a postprocessing.bat, i dont think comskip will run from the GBPVR config, so you will have to either run comskip with recordingsmanager, or call it in a batch file. I call it in paralleprocessing.bat, which runs at the start of recording, so comskip is done when the recording is done. I am pretty sure that you can also just run recordingsmanager in paralleprocessing.bat to do the same thing.

As for conversion, I don't know why it would be effected by this.

[bobrap]

[QUOTE=turkey]I run it in postprocessing.bat by adding this line:
postprocessing.bat %1

Is this correct? I still can't figure this out. Do you use renamerecording.exe or recordingsmanager.exe in postprocessing.bat?