Behavior of - <CheckForRenamedRecordings>

[Elmo Putney]

I finally managed to get GBPVR to automatically convert from TS to MPG2, so I have been going back through my old TS recordings and xcoding them outside GBPVR with the aim to have everything on the drive as MPG2 from now on.

I cant get the <checkforrenamedrecordings) to work the way I think it should, I have it and <autoremovemissingrecordings> set to true, but when I delete the TS file from the directory leaving behind the MPG it dissapears from the recordings menu.

When does check remaned run and what triggers it? PVRx2 startup or when you enter recordings plugin? Or Pehaps with the recordingservice?

I assume autoremove runs after check renamed, (otherwise it would never work?)

Ta

[sub]

I finally managed to get GBPVR to automatically convert from TS to MPG2, so I have been going back through my old TS recordings and xcoding them outside GBPVR with the aim to have everything on the drive as MPG2 from now on.

I cant get the <checkforrenamedrecordings) to work the way I think it should, I have it and <autoremovemissingrecordings> set to true, but when I delete the TS file from the directory leaving behind the MPG it dissapears from the recordings menu.

From memory, it only supported going from .mpg or .dvr-ms to something else. It wasnt until very recently I added .ts as one of the source extensions. If its not working for you, then it might have been post 1.3.11.

When does check remaned run and what triggers it? PVRx2 startup or when you enter recordings plugin? Or Pehaps with the recordingservice?

Whenever the app has to load the recording list, it checks that the recording file exists on disk. If it doesnt, and <CheckForRenamedRecordings> is set to true it'll look for other video extensions and update the database if found.

[Elmo Putney]

then it might have been post 1.3.11

It was listed in the 1.3.11 release notes, I'll have another play and if I cant get it working it's no big issue I can always use vid import.

Thanks

[BigMoose]

I've been wondering the same thing - I'm trying to compress a load of existing recordings and not lose the info in the recordings db about them. I converted a .mpg into a .avi, removed the file and it was gone from the recordings. If you convert directly after the recording ends, does it cope ok? For existing recordings is there not a lot I can do? Oddly Handbrake wont convert to a .ts...

[Elmo Putney]

If you convert directly after the recording ends, does it cope ok?

If your talking about the processing tab in config then yes all the show details are preserved.

From what sub says check for renamed should deal with mpg to avi, are you sure you have it set in config xml?

[Jaggy]

I have been having a similar problem converting ts to mpg recording through postprocessing.bat the mpg would stay showing in about seven out of ten cases but the other three would disappear from the recording menu, so there is something really odd going on at the moment. Finally I decided it was easier just to turned autoremovemissingrecordings off.

[pBS]

you can adjust yourself after conversion if you'd like...easy..just update filename in db..

i can throw together a batch file to do it for you, pretty simple actually,i think just a line of sqlite will do... or you could insert it into your batch at appropriate place..

save as updfname.bat:

Code:

set oldpath=%cd%
cd /d "%~dp0"

sqlite3.exe "gbpvr.db3" "UPDATE RECORDING_SCHEDULE SET filename = '%2' where filename like '%%%~nx1';"

cd /d %oldpath%

to run type: updfname.bat "x:\path\file.ext" "x:\path\file.new-ext"

or just steal the line and insert and adjust for your compression script input/output...
that way no guesswork involved..

might wanna add check to see if new file exists before adjusting just to be sure bad paths aren't sent...
and %%%~nx1 == *filename.ext so path oddities shouldn't be a problem...
could even be used from vid library with minor modifications..

[Elmo Putney]

Cheers pBS I have a look at it tonight.

[pBS]

oops, forgot to mention that you need to save the batch file into gbpvr dir and have a sqlite3.exe in that path as well for it to work as batch..
i would keep a db editor handy to check results when you try it so you can make corrections if need be...

[Elmo Putney]

I went back and had another play with this (first turning off <autoremovemissingrecordings>)

My conclusion is that (checkforrenamedrecordings> works if I use ffmpeg to do the conversion from TS to mpeg, previously I had used the superC interface and chose mencoder, for some reason these mencoder files are not picked up by <checkforrenamedrecordings> it may be something very simple like a small ouput file name change that I didn't notice like an underscore to a space but I dont think so.

Sub,
Does <checkforrenamedrecordings> look at anything other than the filename? does it look for a file size?

Anyway my problems are fixed.