Move files after postprocessing.bat and xvid

[cwwny]

Greetings:

I am a new user to GBPVR and after years of BeyondTV and trying out Mediaportal and Sagetv, GBPVR is one of the simplest to use and operate.

I am now able to record tv then comskip and comclean it then compress to xvid all setup within the gbpvr config GUI and postprocessing.bat. You have no idea how many hours I research to do the same thing in the other 3 pvr software and it did not work.

Ok now after it is compress to avi is it possible to add a step to move the file to another directory and dereference from the gbpvr database? Dereferencing is not that important I can alway manually delete orphans but moving it is important.

I found a few archive tools (supersimplearchive) but it is used for video. Can I change them to fit this need?

[pastro]

Greetings:

I am a new user to GBPVR and after years of BeyondTV and trying out Mediaportal and Sagetv, GBPVR is one of the simplest to use and operate.

I am now able to record tv then comskip and comclean it then compress to xvid all setup within the gbpvr config GUI and postprocessing.bat. You have no idea how many hours I research to do the same thing in the other 3 pvr software and it did not work.

Ok now after it is compress to avi is it possible to add a step to move the file to another directory and dereference from the gbpvr database? Dereferencing is not that important I can alway manually delete orphans but moving it is important.


I found a few archive tools (supersimplearchive) but it is used for video. Can I change them to fit this need?

I'm not sure of the state of the video archive plugin for 1.0.16 but I think that would do what you want.

[Anthony]

> is it possible to add a step to move the file to another
> directory and dereference from the gbpvr database?

If I'm understanding your question, it can be as simple as adding a line to the end of your postprocessing.bat file:

move "%~dpn1.mpg" "D:\shows"

I have GBPVR record shows to the root directory of my D: drive, and this is the line I use to move them to my D:\Shows folder after recording and processing.

Can't help with the "dereference" part though.

Anthony

[cwwny]

Do you convert to avi or wmv ? Because I think after postprocessing.bat is done then the compress to avi occurs. And I want to move the avi after compress not before.

But I will try you idea just to make sure.

[Anthony]

I watch my recorded shows using a TViX M-4000 network media player. So, I prefer to keep them in the original MPG format they were recorded in.

However, I'm slowly transitioning to digital recordings, which results in DVR-MS files. I tried the internal GBPVR conversion but couldn't get it to work. So, I installed a program called DVRMSToolbox, and have a line in my postprocessing.bat file that calls that utility to convert the DVR-MS files into regular MPEG2 files. Then I have the "move" command in the batch file to move it to my normal viewing directory.

The basic file moving has been working well for a year or two. I just set up the DVR-MS conversions yesterday, but so far it seems to be working well.

Anthony

[cwwny]

Turns out the solution is simple in GBPVR Wiki there is mention of PostConversion.bat which runs after compression is completed. I created the .bat file with the following and really just included this "move %1 "C:\Storage\"
It moves compressed file to c:\storage. thanks for the suggestion of a simple approach.

@echo off
Rem PostConversion.bat
Rem This script will be run automatically by GBPVR when found after a recording is finished, with comskip and comclean completed.
Rem To enable it put this file inside your GBPVR default program directory (C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\)

Rem %1 is the fully qualified name of the recorded avi file.

echo PostConversion.bat invoked on %1 recorded >>postconversion.log

move %1 "C:\Storage\"

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