Edit Recordings Data?

[bpowell555]

I've been moving recordings around and discovered the history is lost on the recordings window, although the files are still viewable on the video window.

I've managed to recreate a file based on recording-dump.xml using the contents of a directory, but refreshing this file doesn't seem to update the Recordings.

What else do I need to do to get it to look at this refreshed file? (all that is still lost is the description and channel and I can live without those...)

- Does the UID have to be in a particular format?
- Do I have to update the EPG?
- Does it need to be in a particular sort order?


Any comments much appreciated!


Cheers

ps. I used SAS and DOS, code for parsing as below:

filename DIRLIST pipe 'dir "E:\__Movies" /s';

data dirlist;
length buffer $256.;
infile dirlist length=reclen;
input buffer $varying256. reclen;
run;

data i;
set dirlist;
dir=index(buffer,"Directory of ");
test=index(buffer,".mpg");
if dir>0 or test>0;
if _N_>1;
if dir>0 then do;
directory=substr(buffer,15);
end;
run;

data i (drop=dir directory id) dir (keep=directory);
set i;
id=_N_;
if mod(id,2)=0 then output dir;
else output i;
run;

data i;
set i;
if _N_>1;
id+1;
run;

data dir;
set dir;
id+1;
run;

proc sort data = i;by id;run;
proc sort data = dir;by id;run;

data i;
merge i dir;
by id;
run;

data i;
set i;
buffer=tranwrd(buffer," ","¦");
buffer=tranwrd(buffer,"¦¦ ","¦");
buffer=substr(buffer,1,(test-2));
buffer=strip(buffer);
drop id;
run;

data i2;
retain recbegin filename channel status starttime endtime title subtitle description uid
recend;
length recbegin filename channel status starttime endtime title subtitle description uid
recend $250.;
set i;
test=index(buffer," ");
test2=index(buffer,"_");
if test2>0 then do;
filename=strip(directory)||"\"||substr(buffer,test+1,test2);
title=substr(buffer,test+1,test2-(test+1));
date=substr(buffer,test2+1,8);
start=substr(buffer,test2+10,4);
end=substr(buffer,test2+14,4);
starttime=substr(date,1,4)||"-"||substr(date,5,2)||"-"||substr(date,7,2)||
" "||substr(start,1,2)||":"||substr(start,3,2)||":00";
endtime=substr(date,1,4)||"-"||substr(date,5,2)||"-"||substr(date,7,2)||
" "||substr(end,1,2)||":"||substr(end,3,2)||":00";
end;
else do;
filename=strip(directory)||"\"||substr(buffer,test+1);
title=substr(buffer,test+1);
starttime="2001-01-01 01:01:00";
endtime="2001-01-01 02:01:00";
end;
subtitle="";
status="READY";
description="";
channel="ANGELS";
uid="1000000000A00";
recbegin="<recording>";
recend="</recording>";
drop buffer test test2 date start end;
run;

data i3;
set i2;
filename="<filename>"||strip(filename)||"</filename>";
channel="<channel>"||strip(channel)||"</channel>";
status="<status>"||strip(status)||"</status>";
starttime="<starttime>"||strip(starttime)||"</starttime>";
endtime="<endtime>"||strip(endtime)||"</endtime>";
title="<title>"||strip(title)||"</title>";
subtitle="<subtitle>"||strip(subtitle)||"</subtitle>";
description="<description>"||strip(description)||"</description>";
uid="<uid>"||strip(uid)||"</uid>";
run;

filename header 'E:\SAS\Docs\header.xml';
data _NULL_;
file header;
put '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
put '<recordings>';
run;

filename test 'E:\SAS\Docs\test.xml';
data _NULL_;
set i3;
file test;
put " " recbegin;
put " " filename;
put " " channel;
put " " status;
put " " starttime;
put " " endtime;
put " " title;
put " " subtitle;
put " " description;
put " " uid;
put " " recend;
run;

filename footer 'E:\SAS\Docs\footer.xml';
data _NULL_;
file footer;
put '</recordings>';
run;

options noxwait;
x 'copy E:\SAS\Docs\header.xml+E:\SAS\Docs\test.xml+E:\SAS\Docs\footer.xml
C:\Progra~1\devnz\gbpvr\recording-dump.xml';

[HtV]

I'm not sure I understand you right, but maybe you want to import the xml file, through gbpvr-config-plugons-import recordings.

[bpowell555]

That foopin well works!!! I (and you obviously) am the man!!!

:-)

[pBS]

also you can import from command-line... gbpvr.exe -import