Recording managers, I'm so confused

[markm]

No disrespect intended for the authors of these fine tools/plugins, but they could use a bit better (or some at all) documentation. I've had little problems with the various plugins.

Things aren't as clear though when it comes to the various "recording managers". They seem to have evolved, and merged into other plugins. It's hard to tell what I should be using, and how.

I'm hoping if I explain how I'm trying to set things up, you fine folks can point me in the right direction.

I've pretty much decided upon using MyVideos as the front end to my collection. It has the wife-rating, and has support for PIN's, which is a must have now that the kids understand how to use this and no longer need me to start thier movies.

So, what I'd like to see, is some automation of what to record and when. From what I've seen, the various plugins do some, or all of this. I just haven't figured out which, and how

I want to:
- auto-schedule various tv shows, yet ignore episodes I've already recorded, and NOT based on the fact that the episodes are still on disk. Ideally, I'd like a somewhat easy way to say "re-record that one", in case the recording failed. I can manage with playing in a db if needed for this.
- auto-record any new movies that appear on a given channel, again, as long as I've not previously recorded it.

I *think* CDKrecord is what I want, but I'm not sure. Again, it's not clear how the various modules interact. I've seen some stuff in FastFind that allows setting some of this up. Xrecord seems to come into this, I think? I don't know

Now, once they've been recorded, and are sitting in the gbpvr recording area, I'd like a way to "move" them to MyVideos. I'd like to be able to "preview" the show, to see that it did record what I asked, and move it to one of 3 or 4 various directories that MyVideos works from. This is how I sort out the kids shows, tv shows and movies. Simply "moving" the files on disk, causes me to lose the description. While I can ask MyVideos to get the info again from IMDB/TV Tome, it's not always able to, so I like to carry the description forward.

I'm not asking for too much

The moving part I've somewhat sorted out with my own script I call from the Postprocess.bat. The downside is that I don't get to preview the recording, so failed recordings show up, and the wife and kids whine.

The auto-scheduling, I simply haven't been able to sort out which tools to use.

[jorm]

We do try to make it confusing.


As for the auto-scheduling

Pim is supported by MyVideos, Xrecord and I think Video Archiver as well.

> - auto-schedule various tv shows, yet ignore episodes I've already
> recorded, and NOT based on the fact that the episodes are still on disk.
> Ideally, I'd like a somewhat easy way to say "re-record that one", in case
> the recording failed. I can manage with playing in a db if needed for this.
CDK is what you want for your scheduling. You do not need xrecord for it but it is recommended to modify the schedule easily. You can disable panels in the config.exe to prevent your kids from accessing the videos there or use the pim feature.

RecTracker would also work. Add it to postProcessing and postepgupdate

the purge is the key.

Fastfind is needed for xrecord and guide2j which both provide interfaces to cdk scheduler.