postprocessing.bat and manual recordings

[turkey]

I have finally realized the reason for some slightly nagging problems i have been having. Postprocessing.bat does not run after a manually scheduled recording.

Has anyone else noticed this behavior, or is it just a bug in my system?

[bobrap]

I can try on my system and see. I'd like to see how you use RecordingsManager to rename your shows. I can't seem to get it right.

[turkey]

what problem are you having with recordingsmanager?

[bobrap]

What I would like is to have shows named with series and episode title e.g. Stargate Atlantis - Inferno
and movie channels with just the title. I took the liberty to attach my parallelprocessing and recordingsmanager files. I also use Showanalyser and Videoredo. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[turkey]

bobrap, can you post your postprocessing.log and recordingsmanager.log files for me to look at?

[bobrap]

Sure
Parallelprocesing

Code:

@echo off
Rem The script is called with two parameters
Rem %1 is the fully qualified name of the recorded mpeg file.
Rem %2 is the channel number of the recording
echo Prostprocessing.bat invoked on %1 recorded from channel %2 >>postprocessing.log

rem this trick also makes it possible to have dedicated comskip.ini file for certain channels.
if "%2" == "520" goto rename
if "%2" == "521" goto rename
if "%2" == "522" goto rename
if "%2" == "523" goto rename
if "%2" == "527" goto rename
if "%2" == "528" goto rename
if "%2" == "529" goto rename
if "%2" == "530" goto rename
if "%2" == "531" goto rename
if "%2" == "532" goto rename
if "%2" == "533" goto rename
if "%2" == "537" goto rename
if "%2" == "538" goto rename
if "%2" == "539" goto rename
if "%2" == "540" goto rename
if "%2" == "542" goto rename
if "%2" == "544" goto rename
if "%2" == "545" goto rename
if "%2" == "547" goto rename

Rem use for all other channels
rem goto generic:

:everyday
REM If you use Showanalyzer, unREM the next line
"C:\Program Files\Dragon Global\ShowAnalyzer\ShowAnalyzer.exe" %1
REM If you use comskip, unREM the next line
rem "C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\comskip.exe" %1
cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" "%~dpn1.VPrj" "%~dpn1_Cleaned.mpg" /t1 /q
Rem RENAME the old .mpg file and rename the new one to the old name
move "%~dpn1.mpg" "%~dpn1_original.mpg"
move "%~dpn1_cleaned.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"
RecordingsManager %1 > RecordingsManager.log
goto eof:

:rename
RecordingsManager %1 > RecordingsManager.log
rem move "%~dpn1_original.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"

:eof

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<RecordingsManager>
    <StayAliveMinutes>5</StayAliveMinutes>
    <RefreshIntervalSeconds>10</RefreshIntervalSeconds>
    <PollIntervalMinutes>1</PollIntervalMinutes>
    <ComSkip>
        <Enabled>False</Enabled>
        <ProcessInProgressRecordings>True</ProcessInProgressRecordings>
        <Monitor>False</Monitor>
        <MonitorIntervalMinutes>10</MonitorIntervalMinutes>
        <MaxRunning>1</MaxRunning>
        <RunComClean>false</RunComClean>
        <ExcludeChannels>
            <Channel>8</Channel>
            <Channel>12</Channel>
        </ExcludeChannels>
        <ExcludePrograms>
            <Program>Hardball with Chris Matthews</Program>
        </ExcludePrograms>
        <Folders>
            <Folder Pattern="*.mpg" Recursive="True">D:\GBPVR\test1</Folder>
        </Folders>
    </ComSkip>
    <MaxRecordings>
        <Enabled>False</Enabled>
        <Programs>
            <Program max="3">The Chris Matthews Show</Program>
            <Program max="3">Hardball With Chris Matthews</Program>
            <Program max="3">The Capital Gang</Program>
            <Program max="3">Fox News Watch</Program>
            <Program max="3">Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace</Program>
            <Program max="3">Meet the Press</Program>
            <Program max="3">Special Report With Brit Hume</Program>
            <Program max="3">Scarborough Country</Program>
            <Program max="3">The Beltway Boys</Program>
            <Program max="3">Designed to Sell</Program>
            <Program max="3">House Hunters</Program>
            <Program max="5">Dr. Phil</Program>
            <Program max="5">Oprah Winfrey</Program>
<!--
            <Program max="3">Thomas &amp; Friends</Program>
            <Program max="3">Bob the Builder</Program>
            <Program max="3">Clifford the Big Red Dog</Program>
            <Program max="3">Dora the Explorer</Program>
-->
        </Programs>
    </MaxRecordings>
    <RenameRecordings>
        <Enabled>True</Enabled>
        <Format><Title/><EpisodeName SkipIfNotFound="True" Format=" - {0}"/></Format>
        <NoEpisodeNameFormat><ProgramName/></NoEpisodeNameFormat>
    </RenameRecordings>
</RecordingsManager>

[turkey]

i'm sorry, what I was looking for was two log files that should be produced from the parallelprocessing.bat file that you posted earlier. Postprocessing.log and RecordingsManager.log should be in your gbpvr folder, and look like text files. Let me know if you cant find them, that would indicate a different problem.

[bobrap]

Sorry, just thought it was something in the bat/xml files that might be amiss.

[turkey]

ok, now tell me what happens when you record something. Does showanalyzer run? Does videoredo run? What is wrong with the filenames?

[bobrap]

Yes both run. I think I might have found my own mistake. The renamerecordings file I use is renamerecording.exe. So I changed the spelling in the xml file to <Reb=name Recording> When I changed it back to include the "s", it seems to be working fine. Make sense or am I all screwed up?:o

<RenameRecordings>
<Enabled>True</Enabled>
<Format><Title/><EpisodeName SkipIfNotFound="True" Format=" - {0}"/></Format>
<NoEpisodeNameFormat><ProgramName/></NoEpisodeNameFormat>
</RenameRecordings>