Insert Metadata "Subtitle" to filename / Remove "Time"

[baze256]

I am confused...

I have been going around in circles looking at all these renaming tools WizMetadataGrabber, ImageGrabLite, WizRenameRecording. etc...and I can't find any tool that I could use to grab the subtitle from the metadata.xml file and insert it into the filename for my 500 or so recorded series. When I display my recordings at least I could identify the episode by the subtitle and remove duplicates. At least now I know the episode subtitle information is in the TS file metadata. I can't believe there isn't a batch file already setup to do this (or something close to this).

NOW: Person of Interest_20120216_20002100.ts
RENAMED: Person of Interest_Blue Code_20120216.ts

From this type of XML metadata:

<recording>
<filename>G:\TVHD\Person of Interest\Person of Interest_20120216_20002100.ts</filename>
<channel>KPHO HD</channel>
<status>READY</status>
<startTime>2012-02-16 20:00:00</startTime>
<endTime>2012-02-16 21:00:00</endTime>
<title>Person of Interest</title>
<subtitle>Blue Code</subtitle>
<description>Reese infiltrates a smuggling ring in pursuit of the latest person of interest.</description>
<uid>EP014198470015</uid>
</recording>

Ultimately, I'd like to extract the valid episode information for NPVR and XBMC including thumbnails from the internet. Those that I tested so far are not matching well enough; adding the subtitle should get better matching with the various TV server databases.

Furthermore, I did some searches on the <uid> tag like "EP014198470015" and lo and behold ZAP2it has just what I'd like on their site.
[http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/person-o...198470015]
Maybe, someone knows a way to access that data and have it in a useable format for NPVR or XBMC.

Any help / suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[mvallevand]

ImageGrabLite doesn't care about the metadata file, but it can be used to rename the NextPVR file after right after it is captured to a format that can be used in XBMC and Plex following their rules for TV Shows and Movies.

Martin

[baze256]

Due to lack of interest, I'm going ahead making my own bat file. So far I can extract the title, subtitle, channel and date. Here's what my renames will look like:

The Mentalist_Red John_TNT_120521

that is Title_Subtitle_Channel_date (Format YYMMDD)

The metadata does not show Original airdate, so I have to use recorded date.

That will allow me to find duplicate episodes in my recording folders and also, I hope to put out the xml metadata in a samefilename.xml so that my MP4 recordings can get the benefit (on XBMC) of episode descriptions (that's also in the metadata for each TS recording) as well.

How come nobody has done something like this?

[Reddwarf]

I'm looking for something similar, my problem is that the episode name/number is in the description field in the <recording>.xml file, and I need a batch to replace the date/time field in the filename (of the recording) with episode title_number. Do you have something I can start from?