MpegImport utility added to wiki

[sixgun]

Hi,

I have just added my MpegImport utility to the GBPVR wiki.

It's a little utility which will scan a folder for mpg files and generate an xml file for importing into GBPVR recordings.

Hope someone finds it useful.

It can be found at:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/MpegImport

Regards.

[sixgun]

Hi,

I have just uploaded version 0.2 of MpegImport to the wiki

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/MpegImport

Version 0.2

• Modified so that renamed recordings will be pulled into the generated XML file.

[INDENT][INDENT]If a recording is named as below then the recorded date, start and end times will be taken from the filename

[INDENT]D:\Recordings\CSI Crime Scene Investigation\CSI Crime Scene Investigation_20051105_21102210.mpg[/INDENT]

otherwise the recorded date, start and end times will be taken from the created and modified times of the file.

[INDENT]D:\Recordings\CSI Crime Scene Investigation\Ch-Ch-Changes.mpg[/INDENT]

The show name will be taken from the containing folder name[/INDENT]
[/INDENT]

• Command line support removed

Regards.

[drugstore_cowboy]

Ohhh this will so help me out.. I lost my db when messing around with the system (which taught me to perform regular backups ) so now I can import the files again without having to manually enter them Woot!!

[reboot]

Because of the way I record, edit, and rename, then move the files to another drive/folder, can this addon "read" those files, then import them?
Using KingArgyle's renamerecordings, I now have recordings in a folder (for ex) "TV Shows", and inside would be "CSI Crime Scene Investigation - Ch-Ch-Changes.mpg"

[sixgun]

I have just updated the wiki with a new version that should cope with that.

Just spent about 2 hours doing it. Had to learn regular expressions to do it.

Going to rest now, maybe watch some recorded stuff

:p

[sixgun]

Just posted another version


from the wiki ....

Version 0.4 (12-01-2006)
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Bug fix - changed to make proper use of title/subtitle fields so that recordings of the same show get grouped together properly in GBPVR

[reboot]

Very cool, thanks!

[Pioneer4x4]

I just tried it out, worked fine. I had a folder with 4 shows, 1 was copied over from another machine. I used Mpegimport to make the xml with all 4 shows. GBPVR imported the 1 that was missing! It is simpler than the manual way I was doing it!
Very Nice, thanks!

[sixgun]

Hi,

I have just uploaded a new version to the wiki.



Version 0.5 (19-03-2006)
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Modified to use the metadata.xml in NTFS file systems. If the metadata is present all MpegImport does is replace the filename property.
All other properties (title, subtitle, start/end time, channel, etc etc) are left as is.


Hope that helps folks out.

[unixdude]

Sixgun,

This is a great utility, thank you for sharing it!

How hard would it be to add an option for a user defined folder? Then this utility could be used to move recordings into folders based on user preference rather than show title.

Just a thought.

Thanks again,
UnixDude