Vidimport

[carpeVideo]

I can add FLV fairly easily - I just re-imaged my dev machine so I will need to re-install some sort of compiler first sogive me a few days. I have no plans to re-write graphRecorder for NPVR, I don't even know if such plugins are possible with NPVR. I can release the source code if someone wants it, although its a bit messy as it was my first foray into c#

CV

[garyeuph]

Hi, Does (or will) Vidimport work with NPVR?

Thanks

Garyeuph

[keith_leitch]

I can add FLV fairly easily - I just re-imaged my dev machine so I will need to re-install some sort of compiler first sogive me a few days. I have no plans to re-write graphRecorder for NPVR, I don't even know if such plugins are possible with NPVR. I can release the source code if someone wants it, although its a bit messy as it was my first foray into c#

CV

That's a generous offer: thanks! Why not just program it to work with ANY extension? I'm sure that we can take the risk of importing Word documents, and it's not like that would really hurt anything, anyway. Otherwise, is there a list of extensions that it will support?

[carpeVideo]

Actually it would hurt a lot of things to work with any extension - it recurses whatever directory is given and there could be plenty of non-video files. Even video directories could have subtitiles, edit lists etc. It would make more sense to allow an argument where you could specify new ones.

As to npvr vidImport should work as long as you manually do the import of the xml file. I believe it uses the same import/export file structure although I have not tried it yet myself.

[martint123]

As to npvr vidImport should work as long as you manually do the import of the xml file. I believe it uses the same import/export file structure although I have not tried it yet myself.

What about the database name? doesn't it look to see if the recording already exists? (when I try it finds the already existing gbpvr database).

[carpeVideo]

What about the database name? doesn't it look to see if the recording already exists? (when I try it finds the already existing gbpvr database).

It doesn't use the database it looks at the latest recordings backup so as long as you manually point it there it should work.

[keith_leitch]

Actually it would hurt a lot of things to work with any extension - it recurses whatever directory is given and there could be plenty of non-video files. Even video directories could have subtitiles, edit lists etc. It would make more sense to allow an argument where you could specify new ones.

As to npvr vidImport should work as long as you manually do the import of the xml file. I believe it uses the same import/export file structure although I have not tried it yet myself.

Good point. I hadn't considered the implications on folder imports, because I always use it with a specific, single file. An argument is a great idea, though; it could, in fact, alow recursive imports of only one file type, while ignoring others (even video files).

[keith_leitch]

A question about IMDB and TVRage imports: I have been able to successfully import show details when the filename uses an s05e12 syntax. Is there some way to do this by using the show and episode titles, instead?

[carpeVideo]

I don't see why not - I would expect a lot more mismatches though - unless the episode title is an exact match it would skip it.

[carpeVideo]

Try this version - it adds flv but also add an argument exts= which can have as many more extensions you want to add separated by ~ eg
vidImport exts=mav~m5v~mp3 etc. It adds those extensions to the existing list, but if you want an arg that forces it to use only those exts it would be easy to add a different arg.

It may correctly recognize where your npvr data directory is as well , not 100% sure on that one since I don't have NPVR on my dev machine at the moment.

If it works I will add it to the wiki.

Second, if anyone knows if NPVR has a command line arg to import a recordings file I can put that in as well if the NPVR registry key is detected.

Third, in win7 x64 what does the path to the NPVR key look like is it sysWow... as is windows XP or something else (I don't have an x64 version installed at this point)

CV