STV Import: External Apps for the Default STV (v4.0.3 18/November/2007)

[nyplayer]

John,

I noticed that you cannot run External applications against imported media. Can a fix to this be possible? All you get is a dialog with the file name.

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

I noticed that you cannot run External applications against imported media. Can a fix to this be possible? All you get is a dialog with the file name.

It does work with imported videos. Make sure that have XML File required set to False in the App setup if you won't have an XML file for the video file.

John

[nyplayer]

Thanks John,

It works great.

[whogentogler]

This looks exactly like what I was looking for in this other thread http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36712 but I must be missing something. If I want to simply move a given mpg from one directory to another (archive drive) I set up a bat file that contains the following:

move %1 "D:\archive shows\%~n1.mpg" it will work if I drag the mpg on to the bat file but it won't work through the External Apps menu item. I have use xml set to false and everything else seems to follow the other posts in this thread.

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what to check next??

Thanks

[whogentogler]

I've noticed that it is passing the UNC with file name to the batch file could this be my issue? Is there anyone else who has gotten this to work using UNC in Sage?

Thanks

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by hittr

I've noticed that it is passing the UNC with file name to the batch file could this be my issue? Is there anyone else who has gotten this to work using UNC in Sage?

It should be passing the full path/filename that SageTV accesses the file. If you have setup SaegTV to use UNC, then it will pass the UNC path. I've not done any testing with UNC paths, but can't see any reason why it doesn't work.

Is the target directory a local drive on a client or the server? I assume that your using UNC naming because you're using clients.

Might be worth a try using a UNC name for the target directory.

John

[whogentogler]

J,

Thanks for the help, I figured out what I was doing wrong. Plugin works great. I'm using it to add videos to an AutoGK queue for Xvid processing.

HittR

[rosemary]

Edit: ignore my previous report of problems. Looks like it's not specific to just this one addon but happening in many places in my SageMC.

[JREkiwi]

rosemary, you can use the stop button to move back in a text entry box. You have highlighted that I do need to fix up some theme issues with the current version of SageMC.

John

[Keo]

So i am trying to use a batch file to take the current video i am selecting and play it in media player. I am not familiar with batch at all, so can anyone help me?

[davephan]

I would like to setup the external app plugin to Comskip files. My Comskip.exe and other associated files are in the C:\Comskip directory.

I tried creating c:\comskip\comskip-process.cmd:

start "c:\comskip\comskip.exe" /LOW c:\comskip\comskip.exe %1

That did not work.

I also tried configuring the External App for:

c:\comskip\comskip.exe

and

c:\comskip\comskip.exe %1

Neither of these worked either.

In Windows Explorer, I can select files and 'send-to' Comskip.exe and it processes the file with Comskip. How can I configure the External App plugin to Comskip files?

Dave

[peternm22]

You might need a "trigger" file to run your command script. Read through this thread for details: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49522

I had to use an intermediary trigger file (one command file simply calling the other command file) in order to get VideoReDo to run on files from SageTV. Not sure if this would be the same for comskip though.

Hope that helps.