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

[Northpole]

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

Iain

Thanks Iain, that worked and it ran much, much faster! I've done a quick check of the new xml file and it seems to have worked like a charm. Thank you.

[imilne]

Thanks Iain, that worked and it ran much, much faster! I've done a quick check of the new xml file and it seems to have worked like a charm. Thank you.

You're welcome. Here's the source in case you ever need to tweak it further...

Iain

[Northpole]

You're welcome. Here's the source in case you ever need to tweak it further...

Iain

Thanks, I'm thinkin' it might come in handy some day.

[mvallevand]

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

I have imageGrab renaming files pretty well, but I ran into a couple of problems during testing,

- renaming doesn't impact the database or presentation in the Recording menu. Adding it changes the look and feel because NPVR skins won't know what to do with it, it has to go into the SubTitle (see attached)

- currently NPVR's method prevents duplicates, what do you want done with the inevitable duplicates that will be made?


Martin

[Northpole]

- renaming doesn't impact the database or presentation in the Recording menu. Adding it changes the look and feel because NPVR skins won't know what to do with it, it has to go into the SubTitle (see attached)

I'm not sure I have this correct.... Currently a show like Two and a Half Men_20110919_20002031.ts shows up in the recordings screen as just Two and a Half Men (from the name field in the npvr db) followed by the subtitle (from the event details subtitle in the npvr db). If you add the season and episode info, it would be appended to the subtitle field in the npvr db. I would think that would be OK for me, not sure how others feel.

BTW, the duplicate subtitle is something that does need to be fixed at some point.

- currently NPVR's method prevents duplicates, what do you want done with the inevitable duplicates that will be made?

As far as the duplicate recordings go... What I do currently is just generate a 5 character random number and append it to the existing file (or new file - either way) if it's a double. (ie. Two and a Half Men: S05E001 blah subtitle blah_19453.ts) Then later, when I discover that there is a double, I just delete the extra one. I would think that nvpr would just display each file seperately but with the same info.

Whatdoyathink?

[mvallevand]

I'm not sure I have this correct.... Currently a show like Two and a Half Men_20110919_20002031.ts shows up in the recordings screen as just Two and a Half Men (from the name field in the npvr db) followed by the subtitle (from the event details subtitle in the npvr db). If you add the season and episode info, it would be appended to the subtitle field in the npvr db. I would think that would be OK for me, not sure how others feel.

I thought I could prefix the Subtitle with S##E## to get them to appear in episode order in Recording but NPVR doesn't seem to care about the subtitle or even the flenames.

I am starting to question what the big deal is, is this renaming feature mainly for the video library?

Martin

[Northpole]

I am starting to question what the big deal is, is this renaming feature mainly for the video library?
Martin

I would say Yes, I probably use the video library as much as the recording library. I think there are a portion of users that have multiple systems going, like GBPVR, NPVR, BeyondTV, Sage etc. I did up until about a month ago. I also use two machines to record on and have started dumping them into a common server directory.

The renaming helps me avoid doubles and lets me keep track of the broadcast order.

[mvallevand]

Yes the more I think about it, there will be a lot of people use NPVR without the NPVR database on alternate clients, XBMC, PS3 etc and using the logical name will help them. I will keep the update as an option and use it myself to see if I can used to it.

Martin

[Bluetick]

I'd like to add the season and episode to my recordings. The guide data from microsoft has the season and episode info. Looking in the xmltvupdate.vbs I altered the Case info to match my channels. But no joy. What do I need to do for npvr to include it in the file name??

If someone could make a how-to I'd bet others would enjoy this feature.

Thanks in advance.
Mark

[Northpole]

I'd like to add the season and episode to my recordings. The guide data from microsoft has the season and episode info. Looking in the xmltvupdate.vbs I altered the Case info to match my channels. But no joy. What do I need to do for npvr to include it in the file name??

If someone could make a how-to I'd bet others would enjoy this feature.

Thanks in advance.
Mark

I only posted the first of a number of scripts that I use as a starting point. The basic ideas is to get the episode and air date info into a field that you can see within npvr when scheduling recordings and then later get at that info to rename a recording.

If you used the xmltvupdate.vbs script, and remapped your channels, then you should see that info in the tv guide screen in the description field.

Now, if you use "c:\program files\NPVR\NScriptHelper.exe" -description "<your Recording filename.ts>" you will get the description at the command console. You can parse it from there and then rename the file. I didn't post the other scripts because they are a bit involved and since Martin has opted to change imagegrablite, it seemed moot. I'd say wait for Martin to release his update to see if it solves your needs. If not, I can post my scripts to get it working for you.