new recordings description info stored where?

[tvshowman]

Hi,

I been messing around thinking about how easy it is to lose all the description info for a recording and i am trying to find the easiest way to get that back so I can figure what the heck I have in a name.

First let me explain what I have done...

I love the recordings menu because if I click a show I get a description of it...

if i use the video library I get a list and when I click a file it just starts with no popup or info...

the recordings menu is clean and quick...

Tried MovieWiz but having problems with it halting trying to get internet info for some reason....

I just discovered the MpegImport tool and it scans a directory for video files and creates an XML file and it will then import the XML info into PVRX2 into the recordings menu.
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/MpegImport

This is cool because I just realized I can scan an old Directory and create the XML file and edit the movie descriptions and import them... but for some reason I cannot re-edit this info and like an idiot I left everything blank so I would love to learn how I can edit in this info myself...?

is it in the dbl database or ?

What programs do you recommend for easy editing?

Cheers

[psycik]

Are you talking about importing an xml file (recording-dump.xml) then editing the information and re-importing it??

If so I don't think you can. To do that you've got to strip the information out of the recording_schedule database table, then re-import you recording-dump.xml.

To just edit that description that youi previously imported, I *think* the information in in the programme table, but I'm not sure, I find it easier to remove the recording_schedule entry (which has the file name in it) and re-import.

[zehd]

Hi,

I been messing around thinking about how easy it is to lose all the description info for a recording and i am trying to find the easiest way to get that back so I can figure what the heck I have in a name.

First let me explain what I have done...

I love the recordings menu because if I click a show I get a description of it...

if i use the video library I get a list and when I click a file it just starts with no popup or info...

the recordings menu is clean and quick...

Tried MovieWiz but having problems with it halting trying to get internet info for some reason....

I just discovered the MpegImport tool and it scans a directory for video files and creates an XML file and it will then import the XML info into PVRX2 into the recordings menu.
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/MpegImport

This is cool because I just realized I can scan an old Directory and create the XML file and edit the movie descriptions and import them... but for some reason I cannot re-edit this info and like an idiot I left everything blank so I would love to learn how I can edit in this info myself...?

is it in the dbl database or ?

What programs do you recommend for easy editing?

Cheers

In the db3 there is the Recording_Schedule table which lists Pending, recurring scheduled programs titles and already recorded filenames. THey have a programme_oid that is associated with the oid in the Programmes table. That matching record in the Programme table will have the data like the title. sub_title (that's the name for the episode name) and description and so forth.

If you want to see a video file in the Recordings Library in GB-PVR you would have to create two records. First Create a record in the programme table, that will have a unique oid. You can fille in all the data, like description and stuff. Then create another record in the recording)schedule table that has the that oid you created used in the programme_oid. And then have the filename point to the video file...

It's a fair bit of work to do manually. Movie wiz and I think other utils should help out a lot. I don't know why you're having trouble with movie wiz though

[tvshowman]

thanks for the info.

moviewiz is stuck when I import files from the hard drive.

if I import using the recordings search parameters it seems to to be working.

just playing around with it now.

what I have done is i changes the name of all my video directories and enabled pvrx2 to delete missng videos and now I have a clean slate.

I use MpegImport tool to scan a video directory and it creates a recording.xml that it imports in pvrx2 and my videos are back complete with descriptions.

this is weird as I have an old folder and scan that dir with MpegImport tool found the descriptions somewhere for them.

anyway.....

I have now got Moviewiz to import the files by selecting the Recordings option..

It would have been cool to use a video format like DVR-MS that contains the show data but I understand that there is not much tools available for editing and cutting the video files so mpg is the way to go...

seems a shame to lose all the Vidal info.

[sub]

If you have an NTFS file system, then the information is also stored in the info as an Alternate Data Stream. You can view it like this:

notepad c:\recordings\myrecording.mpg:metadata.xml

[tvshowman]

oh that explains why mpgimport tool found the info

very sweet

now I have to find a viewer for these tags to make it easier

I learn so much cool things here

thank you

[zehd]

OMG... I read about this before but it didn't click. So the pertinent data is stored with the recording. Is that your doing sub?

I may be able to work with that...

[tvshowman]

so....

how can we protect this data?

I moved some files around and i am wondering if I lost some info by moving between drives...


Not sure how it works so if anyone knows then we can create some safe gaurds when thinking about moving large amounts of data around and to drives etc....

[zehd]

so....

how can we protect this data?

I moved some files around and i am wondering if I lost some info by moving between drives...


Not sure how it works so if anyone knows then we can create some safe gaurds when thinking about moving large amounts of data around and to drives etc....

Well I guess you could run the command to open the notepad, then save it as something like the filename and with the filename, and when you copy file around, move them both...

I've been playing with using the meta.xml filename, like copying, moving and it doesn;t seem to be available. Only to open.

I guess when I decide to work with this, I would run the command with notepad, but have the window hidden. I'd send keys to it to save and then I'd have a text file with the data.

There's got to be an easier way like...

Code:

copy "D:\TV\Recorded\MythBusters\MythBusters.S04E24.Firearms.Folklore.mpg:metadata.xml" "D:\TV\Recorded\MythBusters\MythBusters.S04E24.Firearms.Folklore.metadata.xml"

[sub]

I guess when I decide to work with this, I would run the command with notepad, but have the window hidden. I'd send keys to it to save and then I'd have a text file with the data.

Alternate Data Streams isnt a notepad thing. Its a file thing. You can just use the normal windows API calls to open files and include the ":metadata.xml" part to the filename, then read the data and write it wherever you want. You dont need to try to send keys to notepad or anything messy like that.