imageGrabLite 1.2

[mvallevand]

Graham's example is very specific to EPG data that has valid season / episode numbers in the EPG. In the US and Canada unless you are using embedded ATSC data (yuck) you'd want a command like like this in PostProcessing.bat

"C:\Program Files\NPVR\imagegrablite" --oid %3 --rename --zap2it

or with 64bit

"C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\imagegrablite" --oid %3 --rename --zap2it

Martin

[papreston]

thanks guys. The link to the .bat file stuff in the wiki is going to be a big help. I think thats the piece I was missing.

[papreston]

I got it working. Thanks againg for the help. I was WAY over thinking it Now my second question....has anyone been able to include anything in the same bat file to triger a library update on XBMC. Maybe using EventGhost?

Thanks

[mvallevand]

The problem is xbmc has to be running but you can call its json interface from the batch file

Code:

wget -q  --header='Content-Type: application/json' --post-data='{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.Scan"}' http://ip:8000/jsonrpc

It could get annoying automating it.

Martin

[kricker]

I've finally got around to trying this out to integrate my recordings into XBMC's TV database. I have a few questions.
1. I've placed the following in my postprocessing.bat file:

Code:

"D:\HTPC\NPVR\imageGrabLite.exe" --oid %3 --nfo

I assume this will only create the .nfo file for the last recorded show. Is this correct?

2. How do I run this manually for all the shows I have recorded in the past? I'm not sure what the oid value would be for each recording.

3. What happens for shows that are not on theTVdb? I think I asked this before, but don't recall the answer.

[mvallevand]

1. If that is to you "Program Files" directory, yes. For nfo I'd use it in parallelprocessing.bat then you can cancel and potentially watch in-progress recordings.

2. I have posted a sqlite command to do this a couple of times.

3. The will make the library with an episode number = date. xbmc devs were too stubborn and fixated on their filenaming rules overriding nfo files to have a useful discussion. You will need this in advancedsettings.xml

Code:

<tvshowmatching action="prepend">
      <regexp>[\\/\._ -](20[0-9]{6})_.+\.ts</regexp>  <!-- Match NextPVR date as a season -->
    </tvshowmatching>

or you will get two entries, episode = date and episode = 0 I couldn't get across why I felt that their multi-episode match was absurd. This was better pre-Frodo.

Martin

[kricker]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, that path is where my NPVR is located so that's good. I'll search the forums for the sqlite command. I need to talk to the devs again about getting shows into the library even if info is not available. I think it is very limiting to only allow shows with scrapeable info into the library. It has been driving me crazy for a long time.

[Wisefire]

So is there is a guide to using this, everything I find and try doesn't seem to work. I'm new to nPVR...

So far if I run "C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\imagegrablite" --oid %3 --rename --zap2it inside a command prompt, I get an error within Windows stating that imageGrabLite has stopped working. If push through this error the command prompt puts out the following:

Unhandled Exception: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles option, NumberBuffer& number, NumberformatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
at imageGrab.Program.Main(String[] args)

I have no idea what is going on, hell, I'm probably using it wrong or something. Any help would be appreciated!

[mvallevand]

The examples for imageGrabLite renaming are meant to be called from PostProcessing.bat If you want to just test it try with 12345 instead of the %3

Martin

[johnsonx42]

enhancement request for next version:

Can you enhance the rename functionality so that it updates the filename in the PLAYBACK_POSITION table too?

A very common usage scenario here is that we watch an in-progress recording until we catch up to live, then exit and come back a little later when it's finished and comskip is done; we'd just hit Resume and be right back where we left off. Now that I use IGL, the resume point is lost.

Thanks.