sage restart required to watch quick stream fixed files

[Deacon Crusher]

I'm getting files that need a quick stream fix, periodically off of my ceton tuners, especially long files like basketball games.

I run the quick stream fix but to be able to play the file in sage succesfully I also have to restart sage.

Is there a way to avoid that?

Saving the new file to same drive, different directory then original sage recording. When fix complete I ctrl - x ctrl -v the new file on top of the old file.

Would love to have a solution for this.

thanks

[nyplayer]

Did you try a media refresh if you changed the any part of the name for any reason a Media Refresh will pick it up. Below is a batch file I use that you can create drag and drop or schedule.

set videoredo_path=C:\Program Files\VideoReDoTVSuite\
set priority=low
set delOriginal="no"

rem "set delOriginal above to yes or no.... yes will delete original mpg and replace with QFixed file."
rem "if delOriginal set to no will QFIX file to tmpEncode directory but will not delete original...."


if not exist "%~d1%~p1tmpEncode" md "%~d1%~p1tmpEncode"

START /B /W /MIN /%priority% cscript.exe //nologo "%videoredo_path%vp.vbs" "%~f1" "%~d1%~p1tmpEncode\%~nx1" /t1 /d /q
if %delOriginal% EQU "yes" del  "%~f1"
if %delOriginal% EQU "yes" if not exist "%~f1" move "%~d1%~p1tmpEncode\%~nx1" "%~d1%~p1"

[Deacon Crusher]

No, no name changes at all. By media refresh do you mean refresh imported media? That works with recordings as well?

Maybe more details are in order.

I record a basketball game. Couple of hours later I sit down in front of an extender to watch it. Game won't play, just a black screen, but I can hit stop and get back to sage. Go to server and run a quickstream fix on the file. When done, fixed file, with exactly the same name is in location where original was. Haven't restarted Sage at this point, so it was running while all was going on.

Go to extender to watch "fixed" file. No dice, same behavior. Restart sage and suddenly can watch file.

[peternm22]

Originally Posted by Deacon Crusher

By media refresh do you mean refresh imported media? That works with recordings as well?

It sure does. I get these problems every once in a while with R5000 recordings (as other people do as well). I have my R5000 recordings record with a .ts file extension, and I have VideoReDo output with a .mpg file extension.

I have the external programs plugin installed so I can quickly run the script that nyplayer posted.

I also (slightly) modified the script so once the quickstream fix is done, it sends a command to the SageTV web interface to rescan the media.

You can also automate it with Sage Job Queue to have it run on every single recording automatically, but if you only get a corrupt recording every now and then, it's not really worth it.

[Deacon Crusher]

Cool, that sounds like the ticket.

I'll get started on putting those pieces together.

Would you mind sharing the script addition you use to get the media scan to rrun?

Thanks

[nyplayer]

You need to download WGET and then add this to the bottom of your batchfile. Replace user password and servername.

C:\wget\wget.exe --delete-after --tries=3 --directory-prefix="C:\wget" "http://user:password@SERVERName:8080/sage/GlobalCommand?command=UpdateMediaLibrary"

[Deacon Crusher]

Makes perfect sense.

Thanks