VideoConduit - Standalone App to Import Lost TV Recordings into NPVR

[nogoer]

Just thought i'd chime in here because i found this thread when trying to find a way to import a bunch of missing ts files after rebuilding my machine for windows 10. Every show i try ends up with a file name extension error "No files with names matching file extensions found.". I think its because all the files were recorded and saved with period delimiters and your program is probably just splitting the extension off the first delimiter period and thinking theres no acceptable extensions based on the config due to it.

[27InchSony]

Just thought i'd chime in here because i found this thread when trying to find a way to import a bunch of missing ts files after rebuilding my machine for windows 10. Every show i try ends up with a file name extension error "No files with names matching file extensions found.". I think its because all the files were recorded and saved with period delimiters and your program is probably just splitting the extension off the first delimiter period and thinking theres no acceptable extensions based on the config due to it.

Did you try to adjust the .config file VideoFileExtensionsToConsider parameter? Hmm. It seems odd that there is a semicolon ; in front of the *.ts. in the downloadable .zip file, .config file. Must have inadvertently uploaded it like that. EDIT: I've fixed it in the original post.

STRANGE/ORIGINAL: <value>*.mkv|;*.ts|*.avi</value>
FIxED: <value>*.mkv|*.ts|*.avi</value>

If that doesn't work, do you have a screenshot of the filenames/directories as I'm not quite following your prose.

[MrGenius1]

Does this app work on v5?

[mvallevand]

It might work with v5 since the recordings table didn't really change . I didn't try it bu you would have to change config setting

Code:

<setting name="NPVRSQLiteConnectionString" serializeAs="String">
                <value>Data Source=\\dvr\C$\Users\Public\NPVR-data\npvr.db3;Version=3;</value>

You can always backup your database and try yourself.

Martin

[27InchSony]

Does this app work on v5?

I have no idea and don't have v5 installed. Let us know.

[drbenjamin]

Hi -

Having some trouble w/ Video Conduit. I used v1.0.1 succesfully back in 2016 to import a bunch of shows, still have the logs. Recently need to import some shows and can't get 1.01 or 1.02 to work. The errors are variable, for some directories I get a "You're outta luck" error, (saved in Logs) but for the majority I get a 404 error -

Unknown problem: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. System at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadDataInternal(Uri address, WebRequest& request)
at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadData(Uri address)
at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadData(String address)
at TVDBSharp.Models.DAO.DataProvider.GetXDocumentFromUrl(String url)
at TVDBSharp.Models.DAO.DataProvider.GetShow(Int32 showID)
at TVDBSharp.Models.Builder.Search(String query, Int32 results)
at TVDBSharp.TVDB.Search(String query, Int32 results)
at VideoConduit.Core.Go(String fileDirectoryToProcess)
at VideoConduit.Form1.btnGo_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)5/12/2020 10:44:20 AM Using 'Continuum' as search parameter.

No logs are posted when this happens. IS this a change in the TVDB URLs? or something in my setup? Appreciate any help, the utility was a boon when I last used it.

[27InchSony]

Looks like the TVDB changed their API that VideoConduit uses. There's more to it than this as all the internal auxiliary helper libraries that are 4 years old are now updated and that's causing an enormous amounts of change in the utility. I'm working on a fix. Best case scenario is likely a week, but no guarantees.

[drbenjamin]

That would be wonderful, thank you for keeping this utility alive. It may not be used on a daily basis but it is absolutely irreplaceable when you need it. I know I'm not the only person who has a long history w/ NPVR (GBPVR before that!) and when you lose your recordings database it's a real blow.
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help, not much of a programmer but happy to test, document, whatever.

[27InchSony]

See the first post in this thread with updated instructions and download link (the forum wouldn't allow me to re-upload a .zip file for unknown reason so I used a OneDrive link). Run a few imports and look in NPVR UI. While I processed a dozen+ series with hundreds of episodes, there still could be issues as there were some pretty dramatic changes.

[drbenjamin]

Thanks for turning this around so quickly! Seems to be working great, one comment is I had to delete an extraneous semicolon in the regex for extensions (in front of the .ts type, which most of my recordings are).

Thanks again!