File Renaming Utility: AddEpisode

[dinki]

Hey guys, I'm having trouble getting addepisode to rename my recordings. I am trying this by hand before adding it to my batch file.

There's a good chance that it's something I'm doing wrong, but when I try:

addepisode "c:\media\recordings\Last Comic Standing\Last Comic Standing_20070801_20002100.mpg" "{show}{season and episode or date}"

I don't get any error messages and my filename does not change. I'm running addepisode from my gbpvr install directory.

Any ideas?

[yonu]

I am hoping to get some help with this great program the problem i am having is if I attempt to add this to my parrelprocessing or post processing.bat files it never runs and if stops my comclean from running

thanks,
yonu

[masnovelas]

How can I make this do the following - show name_episode number_date?
The epidsode number is not in the guide info that I could find so I would like it to increment each show from a start episode number I tell it.
I use zapxml for scheduling if it matters.
Or is there a simpler way I could do that?
Thanks

[JavaWiz]

I am hoping to get some help with this great program the problem i am having is if I attempt to add this to my parrelprocessing or post processing.bat files it never runs and if stops my comclean from running

thanks,
yonu

Post your batch files and I'm sure someone will help you out.

[JavaWiz]

Hey guys, I'm having trouble getting addepisode to rename my recordings. I am trying this by hand before adding it to my batch file.

There's a good chance that it's something I'm doing wrong, but when I try:

addepisode "c:\media\recordings\Last Comic Standing\Last Comic Standing_20070801_20002100.mpg" "{show}{season and episode or date}"

I don't get any error messages and my filename does not change. I'm running addepisode from my gbpvr install directory.

Any ideas?

Does this happen with all files on only that specific one?

I've noticed this on a few of my recorded shows also. Probably 95% of them work just fine, but once in awhile, one will not rename.

[JavaWiz]

Hey guys, I'm having trouble getting addepisode to rename my recordings. I am trying this by hand before adding it to my batch file.

There's a good chance that it's something I'm doing wrong, but when I try:

addepisode "c:\media\recordings\Last Comic Standing\Last Comic Standing_20070801_20002100.mpg" "{show}{season and episode or date}"

I don't get any error messages and my filename does not change. I'm running addepisode from my gbpvr install directory.

Any ideas?

My line in postprocessing is:

addepisode %1 "{show}{[ - ]}{episode or date}" >tmp.fil

There are no quotes around %1, so you might try running it without quotes around the filename.

That said, I have had some instances where the file does not get renamed correctly as well. It works about 95% of the time.

[masnovelas]

I think I have everything working the way "I" like.

I have this in my "PostUpdateEPG.bat"
sqlite3 gbpvr.db3 <testupdate.sql


And this is the contents of "testupdate.sql"

UPDATE PROGRAMME
SET sub_title=SUBSTR(unique_identifier,-4,4)||' - '||sub_title WHERE (SUBSTR(sub_title,1,1)>"9" OR sub_title='') AND unique_identifier <"F";

What it does is:
changes the sub_title (episode name) field to start with the last 4 digits of the unique_identifier only if it is an "Episode" not "Show" or "Movie" or "Sports" and only if it doesn't already start with a number.

Then Turkey's File Renaming Utility: AddEpisode will rename the .mpg to filename with sortable episode number and name.

Is there a way I can use this to manually start off with an episode number and then auto increment on each successive date that the program is in the guide?

[Pioneer4x4]

Is there a way I can use this to manually start off with an episode number and then auto increment on each successive date that the program is in the guide?

I don't think you need to. If it will create a dupe file name, it put's the (1) or (2)... at the end automatically to prevent dupes.

[masnovelas]

I don't think you need to. If it will create a dupe file name, it put's the (1) or (2)... at the end automatically to prevent dupes.

Right now all I have is the show name and date, There are no episode numbers so I am looking for way to add them.
ANy ideas would be appreciated.

[stefan]

If I understand things correctly, I could use use addEpisode manually to rename a few recordings even when there is no episode information in the EPG.

I'd like to be able to in some way add some episode information to a few of my kids' shows, so they can find "the Backyardigans with the Vikings" without looking through all the Backyardigans shows I don't get any episode information in my EPG.

So, my question is, could I run

addEpisode Backyardigans.mpg "{show} - Vikings"

and get it renamed to Backyardigans - Vikings.mpg?