Lost all previous recording details

[mruane]

Hi

I had to perform a system restore today and at the end of this all of my recording information had dissappeared from the gbpvr.db3 database. Only Drive C was subject to the restore so I now have a mismatch between the Recording database and the Recordings folder. Of course, all of the recordings are still present in the Recordings folder but no entries exist for them in the database.

I wondered if anyone had developed a program to trawl through a specified folder and create a Recording database entry for each MPG file based on the details in the filename. If not, Sub - can you provide some default values for the columns in the Recording table that cannot be generated from the MPG filename and I can recreate the entries by hand.

Cheers Mike

[pastro]

Yes, it's called mpegimport. It's a utility.
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/MpegImport
It's a gui and it first creates an xml file and then you hit the import button and it should put everything back in your database.

[mruane]

Thanks Pastro - that will save me heaps of time. Appreciate it...

Edit: Downloaded and executed. Worked like a charm - thanks "sixgun"...

Cheers Mike

[snowmanaxp]

I think I have seen this option in the GBPVR config somewhere. It may be on the same tab as where you set up your recordings directories.
I think there is an export button and an import button.

[pastro]

I think I have seen this option in the GBPVR config somewhere. It may be on the same tab as where you set up your recordings directories.
I think there is an export button and an import button.

It's available but you have to create an XML file yourself. If you export your recordings then you can see the file format and then you could create a file that would import your missing recordings.
Mpegimport creates the file automatically.

Maybe before you do anything that could lose your recordings it would be a good idea to export so you could easily import back in.

[sub]

It's available but you have to create an XML file yourself.

Its worth noting that GB-PVR creates a recordings-dump.xml file in the correct format each time the automated EPG update occurs, so if you have a problem like this, you often click 'import recordings' and select this file.

[HydroChronic]

Its worth noting that GB-PVR creates a recordings-dump.xml file in the correct format each time the automated EPG update occurs, so if you have a problem like this, you often click 'import recordings' and select this file.

I assume this dump is created in GBPVR's install directory. But can this directory be changed to say the Recordings directory? I ask because my Recordings are on a completely different hard drive than GBPVR and my OS, so it would be nice to have this dump file with its recording set, as opposed to with the installed application. This way if anything happens to GBPVR or the OS I still have the working Recordings hard drive with the xml dump ready to be imported once I have a working OS and GBPVR for it.

[spitfire9137]

You could create a batch file to copy the above file to your recordings directory, then schedule it to run every night after you EPG update.