how does RecordingService.ArchiveRecording work exactly?

[reven]

Hi does anyone know how

RecordingService.ArchiveRecording()

works exactly?

I'm wanting to be able to move a entire group of recordings (ie all recordings in a folder, like "Stargate") to another recording directory. This directory might contain 10 (or 100 or whatever) recordings.

Can I just call RecordingService.ArchiveRecording() for every item to move, and that will queue them up to be moved?

Also if that is the case, what happens if during the move I request they be moved again?

eg first I move 10 Stargate recordings to "Tv Shows" recording directory
then I decide I want to move them to "SciFI Tv Shows" whilst its moving number 5.

Does it just wait until that move is finish then reprocess the 10 to move again? (or just add the new 10 to the list of moves, so it has 15 moves in the list, 5 of which will be to the old location)

I noticed there is a .CurrentlyArchiving() method which returns true/false which I could use if ArchiveRecording doesnt work that way at all (ie make my own queue and call .CurrentlyArchiving() every few seconds to move to the next item to move).

TIA

[sub]

From memory it queues the up and does them one at a time. If you move an item again, it'll process each move request in sequence.

[reven]

oh cheers, thats fine then, dont have to write my own queue system

[reven]

getting this error when i try and do the ArchiveRecording command

Code:

2012-11-30 18:50:15.869    [ERROR][16]    Unable to find target destination directory: D:\Videos\NPVR Recordings\Users\john\TV Shows

that directory does exist on disk, and even with trailing \ which gave this error

Code:

Unable to find target destination directory: D:\Videos\NPVR Recordings\Users\john\TV Shows\

im passing in the full path to the archive command, when i passed in the recordingdirectoryid i got this error

Code:

2012-11-30 18:48:08.861    [ERROR][16]    Unable to find target destination directory: [john - TV Shows]

[reven]

silly me i forgot to remove the "[" and "]" from the recordingdirectoryid, passing in "john - TV Shows" works perfectly