Vidimport

[tvshowman]

thanks carpeVideo!

that makes much sense. I think ne of the big stumbling blocks is that we can't choose were a file should be recorded too in gbpvr. scrapers seem to want either all movies or all tv shows or they return weird results for either. I am thinking about learning to make a batch file so I can move a file into either a movie directory or a tv show directory after it is recorded manually using the transcode option with tanscoding and have one scraper that is specific to the tv folder and one for the movie folder.

I'm not sure if I am dediacted enough to make any of this a reality but it has been a cool experience trying things out quickly.

fanart really is cool so that is the ultimate goal. Other programs like xbmc do some of that but faults like no hardware acceleration on HD h264 makes it not even worth exploring.

Cheers

[carpeVideo]

thanks carpeVideo!

that makes much sense. I think ne of the big stumbling blocks is that we can't choose were a file should be recorded too in gbpvr. scrapers seem to want either all movies or all tv shows or they return weird results for either. I am thinking about learning to make a batch file so I can move a file into either a movie directory or a tv show directory after it is recorded manually using the transcode option with tanscoding and have one scraper that is specific to the tv folder and one for the movie folder.

fanart really is cool so that is the ultimate goal. Other programs like xbmc do some of that but faults like no hardware acceleration on HD h264 makes it not even worth exploring.

Cheers

I think there is a simpler answer, if the file is from gbpvr and the guide info is decent then most of the time it is not so hard to tell if it is a movie or TV show in the hidden metadata.

Each has a UID and most TV episodes look have a tag like this:
<uid>EP00859795.0041</uid> series may also have a genre:
<genre>Series</genre>
Most movies have a tag like this:
<uid>MV0349560000</uid>

If you transcode without specifically moving the metadata along with it you will lose the metadata and whatever scraper you use will have to guess.

Since you are mostly talking about gbpvr files I would a) make sure if you transcode you move the metadata b) go to wiz's support for his metadata grabber and describe your issue, if he doesn't already look at the existing tag's I am sure he could easily do that and he grabs jpg's along with his metadata so he may get fan art as well.

CV

[tvshowman]

Thanks man!

I have most of the tools that download the fanart and display them in GBPVR.

See this thread for pictures of progress.
http://forums.gbpvr.com//showthread.php?...use-please

Fanart is working fine in gbpvr as you can see in the thread. I have been testing methods of either havnig my files in one big folder or having them each in their own folder. So through testing I have been pulling the movies out of 100's of directories and moving them into one directory and running the metadata and fanart scrapers and determining what works the best and of course I also have been putting 100's of movies back into individual folders and have found that tv scrapers more or less want tv shows in their own folder with each series in their own directory. With movie files the various scrapers handle one big folder of movies fine.

I made a typo and should have said that I am not currently shrinking any files just moving them into different parts of the hard drive which makes them lost in pvrx2 as that is intended for the testing.

I use vidimport to put the files back into pvrx2's recording database.

I know that it is important for a scraper to not change the date of the write file or the files are put back in alphabet and not when they are recorded. Some programs have an option to scrape files in the order of last write which seems to preserve the order structure. I also know that ultraxml can add things to movie titles like ratings and content (rated r nudity ect... so I am wondering why I haven't been able to have the episode number data included in the titles? when the file is recorded my files have the date and language of the movie.

"At Home by Myself With You(2009)(Adult Situations)_20100331_19002030.ts"

Through my tests it became apparent that most scrapers handle tv shows best when each show has their own directory and all movies scrape fine even if they are in one folder.

the "&quot; show name &apos;s" problem tagged 100's of tv files. I have 5 terabytes of hard disks lol

Fanart scrapers are still in their infancy here at gbpvr that is why I have been testing various other tools on the net to see how they are doing it.

Thanks so much for the help.

[navyblue]

I definitely have to say I agree with everyone else. This is an amazing plugin! I was able to import my recordings from a previous setup on a different system. Just one big problem. I now have duplicates. Currently I am running version gbpvr 1.4.7. When I read the docs (http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/VidImport) it says that vidImport will default to include recordings from "recordings-dump.xml". I thought that is what I had but it looks as though gbpvr 1.4.7 automatically creates and uses "recording-dump.xml". Notice the missing "s". So when I ran it, it did import my recordings, but it also made duplicates of the ones that I currently have. So I have the original version of a show and also a version that says "IMPORT" for that very same show.

Is there a way to get rid of the shows that say "IMPORT" without deleting my actual files?

[carpeVideo]

It does correctly use the recordings-dump.xml I don't know which name is correct, but perhaps the language is wrong - if it finds the file (including path) in the recordings-file it does not re-import it.

If you ran gbpvr or installed a new gbpvr then the recordings dump may have been blank. Did you move the old system's gbpvr.db3 over? if so then the recordings were already there but not in the xml file. The easiest way to fix things at this point is to move the files to a new directory that GBPVR is not viewing then run gbpvr, it will clear the "missing" recordings, then move the dir back and re-run vidimport or if you have a good recordings dump from the previous install and everything is in the same dir structure you could actually import the file into gbpvr without running vidImport. One caveat - the fact that it called everything imported is odd - did you run vidImport before setting up the tuners/guides in the new installation?

[navyblue]

I apologize on my terminology. When I say "new" I actually meant the "latest". I have had this setup for about 2 months now. Everything has been running fine and recording just great. Today is the first day that I am running vidImport, but did other things as well. For example, today I . . .

1. Installed new 2tb drive
2. Ran SuperSimpleArchiver to move files to new drive.
3. Ran VidImport because I had some old directories from and older system that I merged in using copy/paste.

Not sure if that helps, but I do know that there seems to be some discrepancy in file names. At least I think so.

recordings-dump.xml (what VidImport looks for by default)
recording-dump.xml (what gbpvr 1.4.7 created for me)

As you can see, these are 2 different file names. Might this have been the problem?

[navyblue]

Woops, almost forgot, no I did not write over with 'gbpvr.db3'. It was a clean installation.

No for some reason when I move the files out of the directory and then restart gbpvr, the files are not clearing. When I try to play a video, the only 2 options I get is to either "delete" or "close".

[navyblue]

Also, when exporting from the config panel, it exports to recording-dump.xml, but this file is larger in size than the videos.xml file created by vidImport which seems a bit odd. It is starting to look pretty obvious that I must have screwed something up.

vidImport - 98KB
recording-dump.xml (exported after vidImport was ran) - 131KB

When trying to import videos.xml or any other .xml file I am getting "No recording were imported. The recordings either already existed, or the video files are no longer in their original locations." )=

[carpeVideo]

I am slightly confused by the recordings vs recordingDump but as far as I can see GBPVR always exports to recordingDump.xml (either manually or the auto dump that is done nightly) and that is what vidImport reads so I see no issue there.

Those files that can not be played (delete or close) have entries in the database but the file does not exist. GBPRV will auto delete these entries if the config.xml entry is set to true. <AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>true</AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>

I am honestly unfamiliar with the simpleArchiver so I don't know how it works. I believe all you needed to do was to move all the recordings from the old to new machine and run vidImport and things should have worked. At the end of the day you may need to start with a fresh clean DB (config with sources/epg but no show) and then run videoImport to get the results you want.

CV

[navyblue]

Thanks a ton for looking into this! Well, it looks as though the import went well after following your advice. The program is really insanely awesome, unfortunately I have not been able to reap all the benefits thus far. The only thing now is that the video descriptions all still say "IMPORT".

I ran from the main gbpvr directory this command
(vidImport.exe e:\gbpvr_recordings xmlin="recording-dump.xml") not including the parenthesis.

Here is a screenshot of the result: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2017351/Screensh...M.png.html

AND "showDetail.txt" contains only the following text: "SHOWFILE~~1.0}}". Should it contain more than this?


Below is the actual videos.xml (with some common entries in the middle removed following the file pattern)

Code:

vidImport.exe version 1.36
Recursing directory/file: e:\gbpvr_recordings
Default Xmlin = C:\Program Files (x86)\Devnz\GBPVR\recording-dump.xml
Settings used:  
----> Gbprv Dir = C:\Program Files (x86)\Devnz\GBPVR\
----> Gbpvr Recording File = recording-dump.xml
----> Show File = C:\Program Files (x86)\Devnz\GBPVR\showDetail.txt
----> Autoimport = True
----> XmlOut = videos.xml
----> ImdbLookup = True
----> Autoimport = True
----> Season Prefix = s
----> Episode Prefix = e
----> Episode Suffix = .
----> Write NFO = False
----> Include Season in Episode = False
----> Starting dir/file = e:\gbpvr_recordings
Reading showfile C:\Program Files (x86)\Devnz\GBPVR\showDetail.txt
Checking for gbpvr export file:recording-dump.xml
Reading gbpvr export: recording-dump.xml
Recursing: e:\gbpvr_recordings
Adding 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_17001800.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_18001900.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_19002000.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_20002100.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s_20100709_18001900.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s_20100709_19002000.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s_20100709_20002100.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s_20100709_21002200.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s_20100709_22002300.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding Track and Field_20100612_16001800.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding Track and Field_20100625_20002200.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding Track and Field_20100626_13001430.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding Track and Field_20100626_15001600.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding Track and Field_20100627_13001430.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding Track and Field_20100627_15001600.mpg to list of recordings.
Adding Track and Field_20100703_16301800.mpg to list of recordings.
  Searching for title: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: Track and Field, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: Track and Field, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: Track and Field, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: Track and Field, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: Track and Field, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: Track and Field, subtitle:  on IMDB
  Searching for title: Track and Field, subtitle:  on IMDB
Executing C:\Program Files (x86)\Devnz\GBPVR\\pvrx2 -import:"videos.xml"
Waiting for to exit C:\Program Files (x86)\Devnz\GBPVR\\pvrx2 -import:"videos.xml"
Import exited but process still running C:\Program Files (x86)\Devnz\GBPVR\\pvrx2 -import:"videos.xml"
Sleeping for 5 seconds so you can read this message :0)
Writing show file C:\Program Files (x86)\Devnz\GBPVR\showDetail.txt