Vidimport

[carpeVideo]

First - that is not the videos.xml it is the log of vid import - the videos.xml is likeley deleted when GBPVR imports it - you would need to use the command arg import=false to have it create the file and not call GBPVR explicitly to import it.

The IMPORT is the channel that it is imported to - which to me shows it is likely there is no metadata to work with since it would normally use the metadata's channel but it gave up and used IMPORT. Also it can't find the "songs of the xx's" on the internet to get new data so there is no sub-title or description. As to the showDetail - that only gets imported if it finds a series to work with (eg a show you downloaded with a name like merlin.s05e05.mpg) that has no metadata associated with it.

Type this command and see what happens: notepad.exe "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.mpg:metadata.xml" it should show the metadata that gbpvr saved with the file that vidImport tries to work with. If its blank there isnt anything to work with on these files in metadata or on the internet. Did you by any chance transcode these files, doing that will cause the loss of the hidden metadata.

CV

Were these "Greatest songs of the x" recorded by GBPVR??

[navyblue]

Yep, sorry about that, that is the log I had posted. I have been looking through the videos.xml file and see the metadata. I don't think it is finding the data as is obvious. Which is okay since a lot of it was recorded in early 2009. I haven't trans-coded any of the files at all. I do know for a fact though that when I run vidImport that it automatically imports the files as I am looking in the dos window, then it leaves me with a "videos.xml" file sitting in the very same folder. Also, yes the files were recorded by gbpvr. Songs of the 80s...... looks like this:

Code:

<recording>
    <filename>e:\gbpvr_recordings\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.mpg</filename>
    <channel>IMPORT</channel>
    <status>READY</status>
    <startTime>2009-01-22 16:00:00</startTime>
    <endTime>2009-01-22 17:00:00</endTime>
    <title>100 Greatest Songs of the 80s</title>
    <subtitle />
    <description></description>
    <uid />
    <group>1001</group>
  </recording>
  <recording>
    <filename>e:\gbpvr_recordings\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_17001800.mpg</filename>
    <channel>IMPORT</channel>
    <status>READY</status>
    <startTime>2009-01-22 17:00:00</startTime>
    <endTime>2009-01-22 18:00:00</endTime>
    <title>100 Greatest Songs of the 80s</title>
    <subtitle />
    <description></description>
    <uid />
    <group>1001</group>
  </recording>
  <recording>
    <filename>e:\gbpvr_recordings\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_18001900.mpg</filename>
    <channel>IMPORT</channel>
    <status>READY</status>
    <startTime>2009-01-22 18:00:00</startTime>
    <endTime>2009-01-22 19:00:00</endTime>
    <title>100 Greatest Songs of the 80s</title>
    <subtitle />
    <description></description>
    <uid />
    <group>1001</group>
  </recording>
  <recording>
    <filename>e:\gbpvr_recordings\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_19002000.mpg</filename>
    <channel>IMPORT</channel>
    <status>READY</status>
    <startTime>2009-01-22 19:00:00</startTime>
    <endTime>2009-01-22 20:00:00</endTime>
    <title>100 Greatest Songs of the 80s</title>
    <subtitle />
    <description></description>
    <uid />
    <group>1001</group>
  </recording>
  <recording>
    <filename>e:\gbpvr_recordings\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_20002100.mpg</filename>
    <channel>IMPORT</channel>
    <status>READY</status>
    <startTime>2009-01-22 20:00:00</startTime>
    <endTime>2009-01-22 21:00:00</endTime>
    <title>100 Greatest Songs of the 80s</title>
    <subtitle />
    <description></description>
    <uid />
    <group>1001</group>
  </recording>

I'm grateful it got even that much. I don't really care that the channel says "IMPORT" as much as I wish that the descriptions were still available. I'm sure I can find a plugin to edit the description down the road if needed. I searched my computer for every "recording-dump.xml" and "videos.xml" file I could find. I then imported each one. I was left with duplicates, so I moved the videos to another folder, then deleted the dups from gbpvr, and then moved the files back and everything so far is kosher.

[carpeVideo]

Did you try this :

Type this command and see what happens:
notepad.exe "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.mpg:metadata.xml"
it should show the metadata that gbpvr saved with the file that vidImport tries to work with. If its blank there isnt anything to work with on these files in metadata or on the internet. Did you by any chance transcode these files, doing that will cause the loss of the hidden metadata.

[navyblue]

I had tried that both from the main gbpvr directory and from the "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" directory (didn't know which to run it from) and tried it again just now and get the same thing.

1) From the gbpvr directory I get:

Code:

Cannot find the C:\Program Files (x86)\Devnz\GBPVR\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.mpg:metadata.xml file.

Do you want to create a new file?

2) From the directory of the file I get:

Code:

Cannot find the E:\gbpvr_recordings\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.mpg:metadata.xml file.

Do you want to create a new file?

[carpeVideo]

Neither of those look like the correct path to the actual file - isn't it in something like E:\gbpvr_recordings\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.mpg:metadata.xml

[navyblue]

Unfortunately I am not too familiar with the colon you have in the filename, but below is the directory listing of that particular folder

Code:

Directory of E:\gbpvr_recordings\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s

07/20/2010  07:48 AM    <DIR>          .
07/20/2010  07:48 AM    <DIR>          ..
01/22/2009  06:03 PM               145 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.edl
01/22/2009  06:03 PM           302,519 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.log
01/22/2009  06:00 PM             6,868 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.logo.txt
01/22/2009  06:00 PM     1,836,791,744 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.mpg
01/22/2009  06:03 PM               174 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.txt
01/22/2009  07:03 PM               112 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_17001800.edl
01/22/2009  07:03 PM           300,639 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_17001800.log
01/22/2009  07:00 PM             7,064 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_17001800.logo.txt
01/22/2009  07:00 PM     1,806,288,832 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_17001800.mpg
01/22/2009  07:03 PM               150 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_17001800.txt
01/22/2009  08:03 PM               112 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_18001900.edl
01/22/2009  08:03 PM           285,322 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_18001900.log
01/22/2009  08:00 PM             7,040 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_18001900.logo.txt
01/22/2009  08:00 PM     1,805,676,480 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_18001900.mpg
01/22/2009  08:03 PM               150 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_18001900.txt
01/22/2009  09:03 PM               112 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_19002000.edl
01/22/2009  09:03 PM           333,782 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_19002000.log
01/22/2009  09:00 PM             7,278 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_19002000.logo.txt
01/22/2009  09:00 PM     1,807,003,584 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_19002000.mpg
01/22/2009  09:03 PM               150 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_19002000.txt
01/22/2009  10:03 PM               126 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_20002100.edl
01/22/2009  10:03 PM           310,721 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_20002100.log
01/22/2009  10:00 PM             7,260 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_20002100.logo.txt
01/22/2009  10:00 PM     1,806,348,224 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_20002100.mpg
01/22/2009  10:03 PM               157 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_20002100.txt
07/13/2009  09:14 PM           301,568 cmd.exe
07/20/2010  07:48 AM                 0 output.txt
              27 File(s)  9,063,980,313 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  1,544,475,717,632 bytes free

[carpeVideo]

Then type

notepad.exe "E:\gbpvr_recordings\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s\100 Greatest Songs of the 80s_20090122_16001700.mpg:metadata.xml"

[navyblue]

Unfortunately when I put that in exactly as you have it there I get the following screenshot:

http://goo.gl/zEum

[carpeVideo]

Then that is the issue - somehow the hidden metadata has been lost and therefore vidImport has no data to use for subtitle and description. It may still be available in an old recordingDump.xml but you would need to find that and import it using the config application before running vidImport to avoid duplicates.

Mike

[keith_leitch]

I've trained GBPVR to do a lot of exciting things, including, with the help of GraphRecorder, streaming flash video into TV recordings. Vidimport has been an essential part of this.

The problem I am having is that I can't time-shift the FLV files because Vidimport will not recognise that extension. When I change the extension to .mpg, the file plays after it is complete, but not while it is downloading.

I realise that GBPVR and its plugins are now considered "legacy" products, but I can't upgrade to NPVR, at least until Graphrecorder and other products have been updated. I was wondering how difficult it would be to get Vidimport to recognise an FLV extension? Alternatively, does anyone know how I can convince my codecs to use the FLV decoder if the MPG decoder doesn't work?