Adding Season & Episode (ie, S01E03) to Recording File Name

[Northpole]

I'm intrigued, but mainly by how long you say it takes to run. Could you post the original XML file so I could have a look at it?

If all you're doing is appending some elements from one place in a programme's entry to another (the end of the description node), that shouldn't be too taxing (I'd hope).

Iain

Sure, I can post it but it's like 135 mb so I'll have to post it on a web share site. I'll upload it and post the link in a little bit.

[Northpole]

Iain, I zipped the xml and posted it on mediafire.

heres the link (only like 11 MB zipped)

http://www.mediafire.com/?d2r3r09beim9tzf

[imilne]

I'm not great with vbscript, so can you explain what you're trying to do with the actual edit: you want to take the description for each programme, and either append:

- (Released: <somedate>)
- (Original Air Date: <somedate>, Episode: <episodenumber>)
- (Original Air Date: <somedate>)
- (Episode: <episodenumber>)

And that's done based on what information is (or isn't) available for a given programme?

I can parse the file in around 15s with C#, and getting it to do the above shouldn't add much time to that (Core 2 Duo 2.5Ghz).

I couldn't actually get your script to run: "Error processing resource 'xmltv.dtd'."

Iain

[Northpole]

Forgot that you have to have the xmltv.dtd layout file in the xml subdirectory.

I've attached it here.

[Northpole]

- (Released: <somedate>)
- (Original Air Date: <somedate>, Episode: <episodenumber>)
- (Original Air Date: <somedate>)
- (Episode: <episodenumber>)

The script adds the release year to the description field for movies. If it's a tv show, then it add as much info as it can find, (ie. either air date or episode number or both) to the description field.

[imilne]

Give the attached a go and see how you get on.

Usage: XmltvUpdate.exe <inputxmlfile> <outputxmlfile>

Chances are I'll have done something wrong, but it's just a first attempt...

Iain

[mvallevand]

As sub pointed out the zap2it episode number is not really valid, and probably not worth extracting. I did planning on adding this to imageGrab (not Lite) because it already does the heaving lifting. In Media\Show there is a showname.xml and it already has the ids for thetvdb, imdb, tv.com and zap2it making the rename process quite simple.

I would probably not allow a lot of flexibility I'd name the

tvseries.s01e01.episode title

but there would be an option to move series to their own folder

Is there interest in this?

Martin

[Northpole]

Iain,

I get a .net error that says I need 4.xxx installed. I'll try it again later after I install the .net update. I think I only have v3.5 install now.

[imilne]

Oops, sorry. Have updated it to be .NET 2.

Iain

[Northpole]

As sub pointed out the zap2it episode number is not really valid, and probably not worth extracting. I did planning on adding this to imageGrab (not Lite) because it already does the heaving lifting. In Media\Show there is a showname.xml and it already has the ids for thetvdb, imdb, tv.com and zap2it making the rename process quite simple.

I would probably not allow a lot of flexibility I'd name the

tvseries.s01e01.episode title

but there would be an option to move series to their own folder

Is there interest in this?

Martin

Yes, I'd be interested. I run imagegrablite on every show I record.