File Naming - show_yyyymmdd_hhmmssff - Add Date Separators (yyyy-mm-dd)

[blaal02]

Hi,
I'm wondering if there's a way that I can change the name of the file that's generated for certain shows.
Where there's a proper season/episode - SnnEnn, everything is great. But when there isn't NPVR seems to use a yyyymmdd_hhmmssff suffix. E.g. I like to record the daily news, and I today I got:
NBC Nightly News_20150812_17301800.ts
Problem is that the TheTVDB scraper that Kodi uses doesn't seem to want to import that into its library. However, if the name could be made:
NBC Nightly News_2015-08-12_17301800.ts
Then everything looks like it works perfectly.
Is this something I can configure? Or would an option/code change be possible?

The last piece is that the "episode" needs to be in TheTVDB with the appropriate aired date - but that I can add.
I'm trying to add these to the library rather than streaming from NPVR because I'm also running comskip, and Kodi doesn't seem to look for the .edl files when streaming - unless you know different?

Thanks,
Sandy

[sub]

There is no built in way to get a filename like that. You could of course implement your own renaming in PostProcessing.bat though.

[blaal02]

Hi Sub,
Thanks for the update - I was afraid of that!
I was thinking about my own renames, but I was worried that NPVR would lose control of the files, so it wouldn't be able to retain "just the last 3 episodes" - which is now working perfectly.
However, I just tried ImageGrabLite, and I think that might be the answer - it renames my files (all of the various .ts, .edl ... versions) to:
NBC Nightly News.2015-08-12.Reports and analysis of the day's national and international newsworthy events.ts
Which is a bit unwieldy (not quite sure where it got the description from) - but it has the date in the right format; Kodi seems to scrape it properly, and replaces the big long title in the file name with the one from TheTVDB (which is just the corresponding date).
I'm just waiting for tomorrow evening to see if it tidies up the oldest set of files (I think I saw that ImagerGrabLite updates the NPVR database, so I'm hopeful!)
Thanks again,
Sandy

[sub]

I was thinking about my own renames, but I was worried that NPVR would lose control of the files, so it wouldn't be able to retain "just the last 3 episodes" - which is now working perfectly.

If you do end up renaming them yourself, you'd also call the following, to let NextPVR know the recording filename has changed. It'd still be treated as the original recording, just a different filename.

NScriptHelper.exe -rename <sourcefile> <destfile>

[ReplayHarry]

If you do end up renaming them yourself, you'd also call the following, to let NextPVR know the recording filename has changed. It'd still be treated as the original recording, just a different filename.

NScriptHelper.exe -rename <sourcefile> <destfile>

So would you put that NScriptHelper.exe above in your postprocessing.bat file?

[Graham]

So would you put that NScriptHelper.exe above in your postprocessing.bat file?

Yes ... but ... nscripthelper does not change the file name. nscripthelper updates the database so that the filename in the database matches the name of the file after some other command has changed the file name of the file.

[ReplayHarry]

Hi Sub,
Thanks for the update - I was afraid of that!
I was thinking about my own renames, but I was worried that NPVR would lose control of the files, so it wouldn't be able to retain "just the last 3 episodes" - which is now working perfectly.
However, I just tried ImageGrabLite, and I think that might be the answer - it renames my files (all of the various .ts, .edl ... versions) to:
NBC Nightly News.2015-08-12.Reports and analysis of the day's national and international newsworthy events.ts
Which is a bit unwieldy (not quite sure where it got the description from) - but it has the date in the right format; Kodi seems to scrape it properly, and replaces the big long title in the file name with the one from TheTVDB (which is just the corresponding date).
I'm just waiting for tomorrow evening to see if it tidies up the oldest set of files (I think I saw that ImagerGrabLite updates the NPVR database, so I'm hopeful!)
Thanks again,
Sandy

One thing I know for sure, the standard NextPvr filenames (NBC Nightly News_20150812_17301800.ts) won't scrape into Kodi, even if you have an associated .nfo file. They would with Gotham, but after that, no luck. I went the rename root too, and that works, but then I had an issue where NextPvr didn't manage the number of episodes correctly as you were testing. Once I get a reply about how to use NScriptHelper, I will give that a try. But in the meanwhile I have been back to Gotham which works perfectly.

[ReplayHarry]

Yes ... but ... nscripthelper does not change the file name. nscripthelper updates the database so that the filename in the database matches the name of the file after some other command has changed the file name of the file.

So if I rename my file 1st to (NBC Nightly News.S01E01.News.ts), then I would put the following command in my postprocessing bat file.
NScriptHelper.exe -rename <NBC Nightly News_20150812_17301800.ts> <NBC Nightly News.S01E01.News.ts>

Do I need the full path filename, or just the name as noted above?
Thanks much for your assistance. If I can get this working ok, I might just go back to the latest version of Kodi.

[sub]

Do I need the full path filename, or just the name as noted above?

It needs the full path.

[ReplayHarry]

It needs the full path.

Thanks. That it what I figured. I will give it a go.