Automatically move a file at the end of a rec.

[fabiotv]

Is there a way to tell Sage to automatically move a file to another folder after a recording ends?

Thanks.

[gplasky]

No. But you can probably do it with Dirmon2 or SJQ.

Gerry

[fabiotv]

Do you know which is the easier to get started with, please?

Thanks.

[doc]

dirmon2 is probably easier for simple stuff, but if you want to move recordings to different folders depending on channel, programme name etc then you'll need SJQ

[fabiotv]

Thanks.

[wayner]

I use SJQ to convert kids shows to Divx format and move to a specific folder based on the show - i.e. /Dora/ - SJQ can do this in one command.

[fabiotv]

Originally Posted by wayner

I use SJQ to convert kids shows to Divx format and move to a specific folder based on the show - i.e. /Dora/ - SJQ can do this in one command.

Do you mind helping me with this, please?

I would like to move a file after it has finished recording.

My recording files are named like: 55_6_0721_0755-0.mpg.

I would like to move them like this:

from 55_6_0721_0755-0.mpg to L:\Italia uno\09 07 luglio 21 ore 07.55.mpg where:

- the first two characters define the folder (55=Italia uno)
- than I put the year (09)
- than, after the second "_" there is the month (07=07 luglio) and the day 21
- in the end there is the starting time (0755=ore 07.55)

The folders already exists.

At the beginning I would delete the old files manually but after the script will pass some test I would like to delete the originals automatically.

Thank you for your attention.

[Fuzzy]

Are these recordings being done with SageTV? Those filenames certainly don't look like sage originated files. SJQ might not be that easy to use if these are being generated by something else, as it pretty much relies on the recording metadata from the Sage database.

[fabiotv]

Yes, they are. Sage 6.5.9

The first two characters are the channel number given by the video device setup. The number after the first "_" is the number I assigned them. The rest are date and time etc.

Thanks.

[wayner]

Here is my SJQ code. When you talk about a two letter code like 55 are there lots of these different codes? I am not sure how to loop through these to automate the copying to the different folders - to do that you would have to parse the two characters out of the name. If there aren't too many then you could just use the brute force method. So in other words you would exchange wherevere you find "Dora" below with "55" and then create another if statement for "56" and all others. Note that I am also reencoding the shows which you may or may not want to do. I don't know how to do this without reencoding the shows - perhaps you can set the output file type to MPEG-2 and it won't reencode or it will reencode to the same format. But there is no real downside to reencoding to MPEG-4 as it will save you disk space and you can select a high enough quality setting that it won't degrade the quality of the file.

Here is what is happening in the code below - I am looking for TV files that are in MPEG format that are not actively recording and have "Dora" in the filename. I am then running separate checks to see if the metadata includes s subtitle i.e. "Dora and Boots save the Tico" and if there is then I rename the file with the subtitle. Otherwise I keep the number Sage assigns as the filename. The reason that I have to do this is that some shows don't have subtitles and this would cause problems.

Note that with this methodology the files are moved and the Sage database knows where they are. The downside to this is that they don't appear to show up in your Videos Library but they do show up in TV.

// Process Dora shows with a valid subtitle
if [IsTV == "true" && FileExists == "%d%\\%p%.mpg" && FileExists != "%d%\\%p%.avi" && IsActivelyRecording == "false" && Filename =*"Dora" && Episode != ""]
{
   :TRANSCODEOPTS "MPEG4-Good Quality Deinterlaced AVI" "false" "\\\\standrews\\videos\\Isabella's Shows\\Dora\\%s%.avi"
    _TRANSCODE
}

// Process Dora shows without a valid subtitle
if [IsTV == "true" && FileExists == "%d%\\%p%.mpg" && FileExists != "%d%\\%p%.avi" && IsActivelyRecording == "false" && Filename =*"Dora" && Episode == ""]
{
   :TRANSCODEOPTS "MPEG4-Good Quality Deinterlaced AVI" "false" "\\\\standrews\\videos\\Isabella's Shows\\Dora\\%f%.avi"
    _TRANSCODE
}