SuperSimpleArchiver

[pBS]

yea, i'm thinking those are long filenames as dest. so they need quotes around them inside the other quotes..like:

Code:

<Conversion name="Relocate"  exe="reloc.bat" cmd=" {SOURCE_FILE} &quot;K:\TV\media-recordings\&quot;" targetExtension=".mov" />

so it will send to batch file:
"c:\whatever\source.mpg" "K:\TV\media-recordings\"
the quotes on source are from windows, so {source} doesn't need them...
K:\TV\media-recordings\ is a long pathname, so needs them added by you...
try it from cmdline with "third party\reloc.bat" "source\file.dvrms" K:\TV\media-recordings\
[notice no quotes on dest.]
if that works then it wasn't the problem...

at least i think that's what's goin on...unless it is actually hardcoded in which case this won't help at all...

i'll update the instructions so people with spaces in dest. won't have problems...
[cuz you can't use regular quotes like you'd expect]
technically it really shouldn't affect you, as yours is only long, not containing spaces..

[wannabepvr]

The quotes are fine. This profile works fine with or without the spaces I can move MPG files without any problems.

DVR-MS is the problem. I think this is because GBPVR performs a transcode first and this transcoded file is not in the database.

[stustunz]

it seems that gbpvr always converts dvr-ms to mpeg temp no matter what file transcode option you choose

but if you choose transfer (simple archive) it makes the temp file but thats as far as it gets

[wannabepvr]

Yeah I suspect pBS has done all he can. We need some help from the master.

Does anyone exactly which beach he is on?

[pBS]

yep,as i feared...something for the wishlist...[i thought he corrected that a while back]

the quotes *are* needed if you have spaces in destination pathname...
so i added to instructions...
thankfully it's only dvrms that's affected...
prolly just somethin he forgot to undo..

[Pob]

I need this archiver now that I am recording more HD TV. 1 hour = 8gb, and hard drive space disappears fast!
However having read through the posts a couple of times I am still not sure what to add to config.xml

The instructions say:
Note: """ = double quotes ["] ">" = greater than [>] when used inside strings in config.xml
Replace "Archive to USB" with whatever you wish to call the profile.
Replace "\\home\k\mpg\archive\" with your destination dir. [Preferably a UNC network style path:\\server\share\]

And the text file with the download says:
<CustomFFmpegConversions>
<Conversion name="Archive to home1" exe="reloc.bat" cmd=" {SOURCE_FILE} \\home1\g\mpg\ " targetExtension=".mov" />
<Conversion name="Archive to j:" exe="reloc.bat" cmd=" {SOURCE_FILE} j:\mpg\ " targetExtension=".mov" />

I feel I need a babel fish to translate this. The first problem is that HD recordings are always .ts files, not mpg. Will archiver still work?
If so, would the following suffice:
<CustomFFmpegConversions>
<Conversion name="Archive to j:" exe="reloc.bat" cmd=" {SOURCE_FILE} j:\ts\ " targetExtension=".ts" />

[pBS]

ahh, I never setup .ts as a type cuz i never could get it working worth anything on my machine.. easy enough to add as one of the extensions tho..
i'll have to get back to you on that one..[bit of a hurricane cleanup still left to do]

as for instructions, the conversion name can be anything,it's just descriptive..
what you have for a line should work, tho i have to add .ts as an extension in the batch file for it to work with .ts first..and target extension is irrelevant, i just use .mov so it won't auto-adjust the database to the new filename in case you have that set..
the &quot; etc. are only if you need to use odd paths with special characters in them..
otherwise ignore..

oh and it should do .ts as it compies whatever the input file is without checking extension..i just added it to the list of movies to check for and if present,not delete source folder since it's not empty..
if you can think of any other extensions let me know...i have .avi,mpg,ts,dvr-ms, and .wmv as movies now...
[p.s. updated file on first page...wasn't so hard...]

let me know how it goes..i don't have any .ts to test with..

[pBS]

Changed defaults so it doesn't delete source dir if no movies left in it..

easily settable to cleanup those dirs by setting near end of batch: set deldir=no to: set deldir=yes or set deldir=
setting it to anything besides 'no' and it will check source dir for remaining movies, if none found will delete source dir...

but by default now, it won't delete source even if empty..

[Pob]

Thank you for your help. It works on my .ts files, though they are all going into a folder called 'ts' on the archive drive, as I still did not understand the syntax and used the following line:
<Conversion name="Archive recording" exe="reloc.bat" cmd=" {SOURCE_FILE} k:\ts\ " targetExtension=".ts" />
I can see now that I told it to put the recordings into a folder called ts!
But still it worked great.
One file though it would not move; the log says:
original - J:\Manual Recordings\(no show details)_20080916210000-1.ts
Subdir is Manual Recordings\
******** That file is not in GBPVR database!
But the file was available in the recordings menu. I manually moved it to the archive drive, but needless to say it is no longer available from the recordings menu. I think it may be due to me pressing the close button before it finished running the batch file?

[pBS]

well it should end up in k:\ts\originaldir\ and not all in same dir....[unless they were all in same dir on source]

now manual recordings are special but i thought they worked with this, but since they don't have any info in database, it looks like it's outputting (no show details) as the filename, tho it shouldn't be with manual recordings...[should be something like 327 TMC_20080916210000.ts [note channel is name of file]
but yours looks like a second chance recording cuz it has a -1 on it...
[those won't be in database, only last one in sequence, usually a -2]
not to mention () is not good to have in filename...messes with dos,etc..
sounds like it was a channel without guide data...