If show name ends with a period, recording folder misnamed

[BrettB]

I've been having an issue where occasionally, X-NEWA playback of show recordings wasn't loading the .edl data into the Kodi player. It didn't happen too often, and I'd never tracked down the reason. But tonight, I had a little time so I took a closer look.

It appears that when a show's name/title ends with a period ("Chicago P.D."), the recording folder that NextPVR creates does not have the period at the end ("E:\NPVR Recordings2\Chicago P.D\" instead of "E:\NPVR Recordings2\Chicago P.D.\"). But, the row in the SCHEDULED_RECORDINGS table lists the filename with period at the end ("E:\NPVR Recordings2\Chicago P.D.\Chicago P.D..S03E16.The Cases That Need to Be Solved.ts").

When X-NEWA tries to use the path substitution to open the recording file via Samba (and get the .edl file), it fails to find the file because the folder name in the share doesn't match the folder name in the database. So then it falls back to requesting the file via HTTP streaming by OID. NextPVR on the server somehow manages to find the file and stream it, so Kodi does end up playing the file--just without the .edl data. :eek:

[sub]

I think NextPVR probably asked Windows for the trailing but it stripped the trailing period, since it's a illegal. Playing back in NextPVR, Windows probably does the same thing just ignores the trailing . on the directory name.

[sub]

I've made a change for the next release which should remove any trailing periods when deciding on the file and directory name. (so it tries to create "Chicago P.D" instead of "Chicago P.D.")

[Lao Pan]

I've made a change for the next release which should remove any trailing periods when deciding on the file and directory name. (so it tries to create "Chicago P.D" instead of "Chicago P.D.")

Sub - could you also revisit the [...] at the end of Program Titles, several years ago you removed the last period to overcome windows hatred of triple periods in a file name. (or was it Quadruple periods at the end) Since then the fanart for these programs has refused to show.

Perhaps you could replace the [...] with [ -] - this is what I usually end up editing the database and file names to if I am going to keep the program.

Other punctuation that seem to cause anomalies are [:] and ['] You could replace the colon with the unicode character "Modifier Letter Colon" [꞉] (code point, U+A789) This is pretty much the same as a regular colon but the symbol works in windows file names. I guess you could just remove the ' , But it does slightly annoy - having bad grammar

[BrettB]

I've made a change for the next release which should remove any trailing periods when deciding on the file and directory name. (so it tries to create "Chicago P.D" instead of "Chicago P.D.")

sub:

Can you double check that this fix is included in 3.8.3? It appears that X-NEWA via kodi is still getting recording filenames with the trailing period on the series directory:

Code:

20:32:55 8040.277832 T:1495524256   DEBUG: /stream?f=D:\NPVR Recordings\Chicago P.D.\Chicago P.D..S04E02.Made a Wrong Turn.ts

And a

Code:

select filename from scheduled_recording where oid=172126

from the npvr.db3 database returns

Code:

D:\NPVR Recordings\Chicago P.D.\Chicago P.D..S04E02.Made a Wrong Turn.ts

[JavaWiz]

Hmm... I think I may have run into this also with S.H.I.E.L.D., but didn't take the time to figure out what broke....

[sub]

If you guys want to supply databases with one of these completed recordings listed, I'll check what's happening with the filenames and/or artwork.

[myamid]

Hmm... I think I may have run into this also with S.H.I.E.L.D., but didn't take the time to figure out what broke....

I definitely had that happen with "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
Never quite figured out what was happening (just used Plex to play the recordings as they weren't showing up in NPVR), but now that I read this thread I'm like "DOH!"

Nice catch!

[mvallevand]

I could probably do a regex parse in xnewa on the directory if the file really has showname..SnnEnn format with two dots.

Martin

[BrettB]

If you guys want to supply databases with one of these completed recordings listed, I'll check what's happening with the filenames and/or artwork.

I sent you a PM with a link to a database. The last Chicago P. D. recording where oid=172126 shows the problem.