importing videos after move & upgrade

[valeadmagnet]

I had GB-PVR on a computer and was working great, then I sold that computer. I copied the entire GB-PVR directory from "C:\Program Files" and all my videos from thier directory "P:\PVR\(subfolders of shows recorded by GBPVR)".

I put them in the exact same places on my new computer, and then installed the newest version of GB-PVR on top of the old one. Unfortuantly the new install did not recognize the old videos in the "P:\PVR" folder as being there and they don't show up in Recordings menu. The schedule & settings did survive the new install.

Is there any way I can make GB-PVR recognze the old videos in "P:\PVR" folder ?

It is even recording new episodes of the same shows into correct "P:\PVR" folders next to the older unrecognized episodes. I can get the software to SEE the videos if I point my video archive to that "P:\PVR" folder, but you loose the episode data.

[sub]

If GB-PVR cant find recordings at the place it thinks the videos are stored, then it deletes the recording from the database because it assumes the user has manually deleted the video file.

If you'd done an 'export recordings' prior to moving the folder, then you could have you could have done a search and replace on the old-path with the new-path in the XML file, then you could have reimported the XML.

[Pioneer4x4]

Sub, can he do the extract xml meta data thing, then import that?

[sub]

Thats what I meant when said he could of done 'Export Records' and went on to talk about XML etc.

[Pioneer4x4]

Sub, I was referring to this;


BTW, if you're using the NTFS filesystem, metadata about the recording is now saved into the recording as an 'Alternate Data Stream' on the video file. To view the metadata, you can type "notepad c:\path\recording.mpg:metadata.xml".

not the "Export Recordings" in the config app.

[sub]

Yes, you could do that the to make an XML file to be imported. It'd be pretty manual though, and a pain in the arse if you had lots of recordings.

[unix_guy]

Hi,
This is my first post. To import an entire folder of recordings into
the gbpvr just copy and paste the batch commands below into
a "bat" file named xmt.bat. Put the xmt.bat file on your desktop and drop
the folder with your recordings on the xmt.bat icon.
This will create a recordings-dump.xml file in your recordings folder.
Copy the recordings-dump.xml into your gbpvr directory and then
run gbpvr.exe -import from the command line (or start/run button).
(yes I could have written the dump file directly into the gbpvr directory
but I needed to edit the file because I had change my directory
structure when I moved my recordings).
You will need to do this procedure for each directory you want to import.
Hope this helps.
________________________________batch file below_________________
@echo off
rem pause
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i IN ("<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>") DO ECHO %%i> %1\recording-dump.xml
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i IN ("<recordings>") DO ECHO %%i>> %1\recording-dump.xml
FOR %%F IN (%1\*.mpg) DO (more < %%F:metadata.xml >> %1\recording-dump.xml)
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i IN ("</recordings>") DO ECHO %%i>> %1\recording-dump.xml
rem pause

[sub]

Cheers, that could be useful to a few people.

[LilY0da]

Doesn't seem to work unless the drive the file was stored on is local, am I wrong? I got files on a share, the drive shows up as NTFS in WinXP, but it doesn't seem to have that info coded in the files...
But by all means, kudos on the idea, looks great

[sub]

I havnt tested it, but you may lose the metadata alternate data stream if you move it to a network drive (or FAT32 drive). These file system types may not support alternate data streams.