ComskipHelper utility

[reboot]

I was referring to excluding comskip from running on certain channels, (Showtime, Encore....)

NOW it makes sense

[ZaDDaZ]

OK, I'm real close on the RecordingsManager rollup utility.

Right now, I still hit the database directly to perform a rename. I don't see a way to modify an existing ScheduledRecording and save it as a new record with the changed file name. Any help would be appreciated.

Also, after doing this, I reload the ScheduledRecordings from ScheduleHelper and it seems to have the previous names. I put in a 10 second sleep, but is there something that ScheduleHelper does to cache the data? Is it really just a timing issue or is there something I can do to cause it to refresh its cache?

[ZaDDaZ]

Yes, I'm combining RenameRecordings, MaxRecordings and ComSkipHelper. There are clear issues between RenameRecordings and ComSkip (a file that is being processed by comskip can't be renamed) and the order that the utilities need to be put in is somewhat annoying. This will have the added benefit of being able to ignore channels and/or programs and run ComSkip on in-progress recordings and will run comclean as well if configured to. The only thing I'm afraid of now is that 10 seconds between doing a rename and retrieving the scheduled programs from the ScheduleHelper seems to work on my brand new machine, but on slower or more busy machines (transcoding) it may not be enough time. I have it as a setting, but I was hoping there was a way to progmatically do it so I don't need the setting.

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I put in a 10 second sleep, but is there something that ScheduleHelper does to cache the data? Is it really just a timing issue or is there something I can do to cause it to refresh its cache?

What you may be seeing is the really annoying caching that is done by MS Access. Even after a commit, data is not flushed to disk for a few seconds. Damn annoying.

The only way around it is to use the DAO dbRefreshCache method to force the database to flush to disk. Unfortunately this would require 20MB of database access components to be installed on the user's PC that normally wouldnt be installed. If you do a search on google you'll see many people grumbling about it...

[ZaDDaZ]

Yes, that is quite annoying. I think I'll just make the application wait at least one poll interval before quitting, which should take care of everything.

Just for prosperity, it would be nice to have a method on ScheduleHelper that would allow specifying the full file name of the file to create a ScheduledRecording. That way I wouldn't need to hit the database directly at all.

Also, it would be helpful to create a named Mutex that can control access to the scheduled recording data. Then there wouldn't be any issues with changing the file name directly.

[sub]

Just for prosperity, it would be nice to have a method on ScheduleHelper that would allow specifying the full file name of the file to create a ScheduledRecording. That way I wouldn't need to hit the database directly at all.

ScheduledRecording.setFileName(), but it only knows the full file name after the recording has started. This is so the user can change the recording directory, or whether it creates directories etc.

lso, it would be helpful to create a named Mutex that can control access to the scheduled recording data. Then there wouldn't be any issues with changing the file name directly.

GB-PVR has a different internal mechanism for doing this.

[Pioneer4x4]

Yes, I'm combining RenameRecordings, MaxRecordings and ComSkipHelper. There are clear issues between RenameRecordings and ComSkip (a file that is being processed by comskip can't be renamed) and the order that the utilities need to be put in is somewhat annoying. This will have the added benefit of being able to ignore channels and/or programs and run ComSkip on in-progress recordings and will run comclean as well if configured to. The only thing I'm afraid of now is that 10 seconds between doing a rename and retrieving the scheduled programs from the ScheduleHelper seems to work on my brand new machine, but on slower or more busy machines (transcoding) it may not be enough time. I have it as a setting, but I was hoping there was a way to progmatically do it so I don't need the setting.

ZaDDaZ
I have been a big fan of both ComSkipHelper, and RenameRecordingS. I am now running the SQLite db, and using
addepisode %1 -eponly in my postprocessing.bat.

I would prefer to use RenameRecordingS due to it's ability to scan all recordings.

Are you still working on this? If so will it work with SQLite?