MediaShrink + SJQ v4

[coppit]

Can someone help me get MediaShrink set up with SJQ v4?

What I want to do is have MediaShrink automatically compress all recordings during the hours of 1am to 7am.

I'm to the point where I set up the task and the trigger. MediaShrink is installed, and SJQ is licensed.

Using the SJQ UI, I selected my client and added a task. Here are the settings I used:

Task ID: COMPRESS
Executable: C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\MediaShrink\MediaShrink.exe
Executable Arguments: "%c%" /inPlace /batch /vprofile HQ /vbitrate 2500
Test Script:
Test Script Arguments:
Maximum Instances: 1
Maximum Return Code: 0
Minimum Return Code: 0
Maximum Time: 86400
Resources: 100
Schedule * 1,2,3,4,5,6 * * *
Maximum Time Ratio: 1.0

I guessed that %c% is used to represent the media file as before. But it seems wrong. See below.

Next, I set up Events for Tasks, with RecordingStopped and "COMPRESS" selected.

At the end of the show I see a task created in the queue. Then a bit later I see that the task failed. When I look at the log I see literally %c% in the log. When I run the command in the command prompt it seems to work okay.

How do I pass the show.mpg to MediaShrink.exe?

[Slugger]

Instead of %c% use "$SJQ4_LAST_SEGMENT"

Details on all the predefined variables in SJQv4 are discussed in this doc:

http://code.google.com/p/sagetv-addo...i/Sjq4Metadata

[coppit]

Okay, I figured out that I need to use "$SJQ4_PATH\SJQ4_LAST_SEGMENT" for the path and filename. At least the job isn't failing immediately.

How do I make this automatic for all recordings? When I manually record a show I get a popup for the events and tasks. It seems like I also need to configure each of my many favorites.

[Slugger]

If you want it for EVERY recording, go to Setup > SJQ > Assign Tasks to Events and select it from there. Attaching tasks to RecordingStarted there will queue it up for every recording (fav, manual, IR, live tv). If you only want it to run on certain favs then, yes, you will have to go through each fav and assign as desired.

[coppit]

Is there a way to avoid the task popup for manual recordings? They should automatically get scheduled for conversion based on the global recording completion event handler.