API in stead of "import recordings XML functionality"

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Hi,

I was wondering if there's an API available to add videos to the recordings list? I found message http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...+recording, but maybe there's been a change since that.

Chris

[sub]

Sorry, nothings changed on that front. There is no API for importing recordings.

[pBS]

why not just use sqlite to inject it into the db?
i use a batch file to send individual shows + info from 1 gbpvr machine to another..
just figured out how to preserve special chars in dos so it works even with foreign chars...
if you have the info you'd like to include already, it shouldn't be too hard to adjust for adding with that info instead of looking it up in the local epg...

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...t=sendshow

but i have some mods i did to it just recently to account for special chars like '&' etc. so i have to upload that one here soon...[the one on there works fine, just chokes on some chars]
let me know if you'd like it to try out..
do you have info you'd like to include already? [title,etc] or would you like to input at add time?

[Sheik Yerbouti]

why not just use sqlite to inject it into the db?

That's another option. I haven't decided yet, but I won't be doing it with .bat files, since I'm already executing code from another application. It's not hard to add the videos from this app to the recordings database directly, but using the xml import might be the cleanest option. Thanks for your input!

Chris

[psycik]

what about just running pvrxr -import for reading in a recording-dump.xml file - and you populate the recording-dump.xml file with whatever you want

[psycik]

sorry pvrx2 -import

[Sheik Yerbouti]

That's exactly what I'm programming at this moment and it works great! I'd prefer an API, but this is a good alternative.

[JavaWiz]

sub,

Any chance on the pvrx2 -import, that we can supply an optional filename. This way we could override and import something other than recording-dump.xml.

Maybe something like:

pvrx2 -import[:filename]

[sub]

sub,

Any chance on the pvrx2 -import, that we can supply an optional filename. This way we could override and import something other than recording-dump.xml.

Maybe something like:

pvrx2 -import[:filename]

OK, I've added this for the next release.

[Sheik Yerbouti]

OK, I've added this for the next release.

That's great. One other thing: when I execute the -import with pvrx2, I get "recording-dump.xml not found" but I do not get this with gbpvr.exe. Pvrx2 -import does work when you execute it from the gbpvr directory (by first going there in the cmd.exe). Maybe you can look into that as well. For now, I'll just use gbpvr.exe.

Of course when you add the file option, the problem disappears by itself

Chris

[EDIT] I was missing the WorkingDirectory in my coding. Adding it solved my problem [/EDIT]