CDK Scheduler and Xrecord

[venkman]

I figured after fighting with it for the past few weeks I should maybe "ask for directions" :-)

1. CDK Scheduler (PriorityRecording) schedules and records duplicate shows. Here is an excerpt from my PriorityRecordings.xml file:
---
<Configuration>
<MissingRecordingPriority>0</MissingRecordingPriority>
<Conflicts>Delete</Conflicts>
<DuplicatesAllowed>No</DuplicatesAllowed>
</Configuration>
<Recording type="All" priority="1">
<Search>
<Title>
<TextSearch>Futurama</TextSearch>
</Title>
</Search>
<RecordingType>Daily</RecordingType>
<Quality>Custom1</Quality>
<CaptureSource>2</CaptureSource>
<Duplicates>
<Recorded>No</Recorded>
<Scheduled>No</Scheduled>
</Duplicates>
<Padding>
<PrePadding>1</PrePadding>
<PostPadding>1</PostPadding>
</Padding>
</Recording>

---
I have played with it over and over and I cannot get it to ignore previously recorded/scheduled shows.

2. It appears to be case sensitive in its search.
3. the Xrecord keeps writing a file with "paddding" in it (note 3 d's instead of 2 d's )
4. Xrecord also writes some 3 gobbledegook characters at the beginning of the xml file - but this doesn't appear to break the PriorityRecording or itself.
5. Sometime ago I had to remove my "capture source" and add a new one. Well that is now listed as source 2. I notice that the Xrecord interface defaults to 1 even though I only have capture source 2.

The interface looks fantastic, and the xml file recording capabilities look absolutely awesome. I do have the latest copy of the software (as of yesterday's download) and still something is glitchy in my setup.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Venkman

[jrockintuitive]

We are working on making this easier and easier to use. I know that it is still difficult. We already changed every field to optional.
In the configuration you only need:
<Configuration>
<MissingRecordingPriority>0</MissingRecordingPriority>
<Conflicts>Delete</Conflicts>
</Configuration>
For a recording you either need to provide a search or programname. All other fields are optional. For example, capture source is now optional. It now means preferred capture source. I would leave this field blank if you have only one capture source.
Jorm is working on making the GUI easier to use. I saw a sneak peak and it looks fantastic.

To answer your questions:
1. Do you have rectracker installed. And is your postprocessing.bat calling rectracker.
2. Yes, searches are case sensitive - I plan on changing this as part of making this easier to use.
3. I don't have the code with me-- I'll take a look. I thought we squashed this bug (paddding).
4. I will take a look at this
5. When the new version of xrecord comes out, if you want a capture source to be used a preferred source, then you can set it. In your case, you do not need to set it. The scheduler is a little smarter now.

I hope this answered some of your questions

[venkman]

I started over again with a fresh download of everything.
- I still noticed the 3 character junk at the beginning of the xml file
- Paddding issue is gone
- capture source still defaults to 1, however deleting the line works (and the log states that it used source 2 just as you said)
And most importantly (!!:
- Duplicates were NOT scheduled (YAY!
So I am a happy camper!
Thanks a bunch.
Venkman

[KingArgyle]

I belive the junk that you are seeing at the beginning of the file is a Unicode indicator. If your text editor doesn't recognize Unicode, it will probably display some garbage character. The Microsoft XML parser always writes out it's files as UTF-16 format, even though you tell it the file is UTF-8. I have never found a way around this, and it is one of the things I don't like about Microsoft's XML parser.

[jrockintuitive]

This may be a little premature... but I've seen Jorms new interfaces in XRecord (not released yet) and it looks sweet.
I also plan to do some better logging in the scheduler to give you a better picture of what was recorded and what why a show was not recorded.

I have a few other tweaks that are not very exciting that I will report later.