imageGrabLite 1.1

[mvallevand]

Here are the xml files. And I think you forgot to attach a file to the previous message.

As I expected, those files came from tvrage on the 13th, it is likely that thetvdb wasn't available and the imageGrabLite logic is to get art and meta data from tvrage. Unfortunately it currently doesn't support renaming from tvrage. Delete the xml files from Media\Shows and it should try thetvdb again. I will see if I can come up with a better solution.

Here is the update, sorry about that.

Martin

[ttfitz]

As I expected, those files came from tvrage on the 13th, it is likely that thetvdb wasn't available and the imageGrabLite logic is to get art and meta data from tvrage. Unfortunately it currently doesn't support renaming from tvrage. Delete the xml files from Media\Shows and it should try thetvdb again. I will see if I can come up with a better solution.

Here is the update, sorry about that.

Martin

Thanks, the update fixed 2.5 Men, and deleting the Media\Show files took care of the others.

Any easy way to see if there are other shows that have tvrage files that I might need to delete in advance of a problem?

[mvallevand]

By default win7 doesn't have find in files but you could try this from the command line in the \user\public\npvr folder

find "tvrage" Media\Shows\*.xml > test.txt & notepad test.txt

I will have a change for this but I want to think out a way that doesn't just search tvdb every time, that's a sign of insanity.

Martin

[ttfitz]

By default win7 doesn't have find in files but you could try this from the command line in the \user\public\npvr folder

find "tvrage" Media\Shows\*.xml > test.txt & notepad test.txt

I will have a change for this but I want to think out a way that doesn't just search tvdb every time, that's a sign of insanity.

Martin

Ah - I had deleted the two files, so I didn't have them to look and see that "tvrage" was in there. I have a file finder app that looks in files, and none of the remaining ones had "tvrage" in them. Thanks.

[mvallevand]

On Monday the Daytona 500 pre-empted House and Alcatraz, here in Eastern Canada. Because of this, there are some interesting issues because of the smart recording in NextPVR

1 - By default NextPVR will not duplicate deleted recordings so your recurring recordings won't pick the rebroadcast and you will need to record them individually if you have a recurring recording.
2 - If you did get a late EPG update and did not record them, you still might not record them if you have Record NEW because they are now flagged as not first run and they have the original air date of Feb. 27th.

Also right now episode #8 of Alcatraz is scheduled to be broadcast after #9 and #10 next week, I suspect they are going to tweak things a bit, and if they do I foresee issues, with the EPG data, thetvdb data and imageGrabLite getting confused.

Martin

[ttfitz]

Okay, with the latest version you posted for me, everything has been great, no real problems, so thank you. The only show that consistently doesn't rename has been The Late Show with David Letterman. I haven't been concerned about it, because I'm not that concerned with a name change there - and figured a nightly show might be a difficult one to get right, too - but I figured as long as I was messing with it, I'd mention it here. This isn't a high priority for me, so I'm not in a hurry for any changes, just thought you might like the feedback.

I've attached the log file, as well as the Media\Shows and SearchLite xml files.

Thanks again. I've written a script to move a show to it's particular folder (depending on who in the household watches the show) if the rename works, and it's been really neat checking and seeing nothing remaining in the main recording directory because they all renamed properly.

[mvallevand]

Okay, with the latest version you posted for me, everything has been great, no real problems, so thank you. The only show that consistently doesn't rename has been The Late Show with David Letterman. I haven't been concerned about it, because I'm not that concerned with a name change there - and figured a nightly show might be a difficult one to get right, too - but I figured as long as I was messing with it, I'd mention it here. This isn't a high priority for me, so I'm not in a hurry for any changes, just thought you might like the feedback.

Yes I've been thinking about different ways to rename daily shows, late night, day tv, soaps, since really the NextPVR date time is not bad for this type of show. The typically fail igl because they have no subtitle

2012-03-02 00:43:15.626 [DEBUG][1] Subtitle: Length=0

But now I could match using the original air date but I don't think it would be an improvement.

NextPVR style - Late Show With David Letterman_2012030111300
IGL style 0 Late Show With David Letterman.S19E38

Two ideas I have toyed with are using the original air date (to show if it is a rerrun) and adding the guests, either from the EPG data or thetvdb

Late Show With David Letterman.2003-01-01.Actor Jon Hamm; comic Ted Alexandro; White Rabbits perform
Late Show With David Letterman.2003-01-01.Jon Hamm,White Rabbits

The guest would only be of value outside NextPVR since they are in the EPG description and metadata anyway.

Martin

[ttfitz]

Two ideas I have toyed with are using the original air date (to show if it is a rerrun) and adding the guests, either from the EPG data or thetvdb

Late Show With David Letterman.2003-01-01.Actor Jon Hamm; comic Ted Alexandro; White Rabbits perform
Late Show With David Letterman.2003-01-01.Jon Hamm,White Rabbits

The guest would only be of value outside NextPVR since they are in the EPG description and metadata anyway.

Martin

Either of these would be good (says the guy who is looking at this for outside NPVR value), and would match up with what The Daily Show and The Colbert Report end up renaming to.

[ttfitz]

Yes I've been thinking about different ways to rename daily shows, late night, day tv, soaps, since really the NextPVR date time is not bad for this type of show. The typically fail igl because they have no subtitle

2012-03-02 00:43:15.626 [DEBUG][1] Subtitle: Length=0

But now I could match using the original air date but I don't think it would be an improvement.

NextPVR style - Late Show With David Letterman_2012030111300
IGL style 0 Late Show With David Letterman.S19E38

Two ideas I have toyed with are using the original air date (to show if it is a rerrun) and adding the guests, either from the EPG data or thetvdb

Late Show With David Letterman.2003-01-01.Actor Jon Hamm; comic Ted Alexandro; White Rabbits perform
Late Show With David Letterman.2003-01-01.Jon Hamm,White Rabbits

The guest would only be of value outside NextPVR since they are in the EPG description and metadata anyway.

Martin

Just FYI, looks like Saturday Night Live is a similar situation, no subtitle so no rename.

Somewhere you talked about how you might handle back-to-back or double episodes, how did you decide to do this? I ask because I had one of those tonight, and the season/episode portion ended up at "S06.E01+". Is that what it is supposed to do?

Thanks.

[mvallevand]

Somewhere you talked about how you might handle back-to-back or double episodes, how did you decide to do this? I ask because I had one of those tonight, and the season/episode portion ended up at "S06.E01+". Is that what it is supposed to do?

Yes sometimes after the subtitle doesn't match if there is a semi-colon in the subtitle "Episode Name A; Episode Name B" it will look it up as follows

If "Episode Name A" matches it looks up "Episode Name B" , if that matches you would have S##E##-## ie S06E01-E02

If B doesn't match, it uses S##E##+ with the episode # of A ie S06E01+

If A doesn't matches but the first run air week matches, it's valid but igl considers it two episodes and it uses the first episode number for the week ie S06E01+

Martin