STV: nielm combo STV (v1.8 Oct 19)

[jcato]

Originally Posted by turak

I use a perl script on a linux box that mounts my video directories to clean up orphaned txt files, but stranger89 posted a for statement that you could use in windows to clean them up. I suppose you could put it in a .bat file in your video directory.

open up notepad and paste the following into it:
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %i in ('dir /s/b *-0.txt') do if NOT EXIST %i.mpg (del %i.txt)
save it as something like cleantxt.bat. Put cleantxt.bat in your video directory. Double click cleantxt.bat whenever you want to get rid of orphaned txt files.

Thanks, that will help, but it doesn't seem to work. When I run it I get:

V:\>cleantxt
i.mpg was unexpected at this time.

V:\>for /f "tokens=1 delims=." i.mpg (del i.txt)

Also, I'm trying to get comm detect to run on all programs in the background, but it isn't running. It will run if I manually select a program, but it's not running on all programs in the background. I have this in my properties file:

background_commercial_processing=true
background_commercial_processing_awake=true
background_commercial_processing_ignore=140,280
background_commercial_processing_recording=true

Is there something else I need? Also, this is on my client box.

Thanks

[Deadbolt]

Wondering if anyone has seen this with a pvr-350 and Neilm's stv running Comskip:
When it is comskipping in the background...the screen will lock...if I hit pause then play it starts again...for a random amount of time before happening again (usually within 2-3 min). Mighty annoying.

[Endymion]

[QUOTE=jcato]Thanks, that will help, but it doesn't seem to work. When I run it I get:

V:\>cleantxt
i.mpg was unexpected at this time.

V:\>for /f "tokens=1 delims=." i.mpg (del i.txt)

You have to double up on the % to make it work or else it gets stripped out since you're running it from a batch file. Don't ask me why, it took me several hours of searching to figure this out.

So instead of the original, you need this:
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.txt') do if NOT EXIST %%i.mpg (del %%i.txt)

[Humanzee]

Endymoin,
I was getting the same "unexpected at this time" error until I tried your code. Now it runs, however, it doesn't actually delete any text files. If I insert "pause" after your code, so I can see it, I get output like ...

D:\recordingsfolder\if NOT EXIST D:\recordingsfolder\showname-####-0.mpg (del D:\recordingsfolder\showname-####-0.txt )

over and over again for each file in the folder, but when I check the recordings folder there are still orphaned txt files. I doesn't seem to actually delete them. Am I missing something?

[Humanzee]

Never mind, I figured it out, you can't have a space in your recordings folder name. Mine is D:\Tv Media\ I ran a test in a folder with out a space in the name and it worked. Isn't DOS fun?

[Endymion]

Originally Posted by Humanzee

Endymoin,
I was getting the same "unexpected at this time" error until I tried your code. Now it runs, however, it doesn't actually delete any text files. If I insert "pause" after your code, so I can see it, I get output like ...

D:\recordingsfolder\if NOT EXIST D:\recordingsfolder\showname-####-0.mpg (del D:\recordingsfolder\showname-####-0.txt )

over and over again for each file in the folder, but when I check the recordings folder there are still orphaned txt files. I doesn't seem to actually delete them. Am I missing something?

Damn, I typed a bunch of stuff that was wrong anyway, and then saw you already figured it out when I posted.

[nielm]

Dooms_day: What you describe is odd because there is nothing that my STV can do that can change the padding settings of already existing favourties/recordings behind your back, and even the code for editing the padding for an existing/new favourite/record is identical to that in the original...


Deadbolt: Laurenglenn's multiple file comskip... I don't know how easy/difficult this would be. As I don't use comskip myself, I don't want to spend too much of my time on it....
It is not possible to change what you need for the favourites in the STV.

bgorrel: I won't modify the archived shows screen, sorry, and as others have pointed out, all malores menus are included
I am not going to change the installation process. The separate zipfiles are there to save bandwidth -- each new version normally only needs an STV update, so you don't need to download unchanged icons/java/ -- and to prevent updates wiping your modified settings in menu.xml.
Ghost shadows of all the menus and text: sounds like your background image (Background1024.jpg) has disappeared, or has become corrupted. Maybe you installed into a different directory, or cleaned up the OriginalV2 directory.
My STV uses the images that are included with the OriginalV2 STV from Sage, so you still need all the stuff that was in that directory...

jcato: there was a bug in running background com skip in 1.4 which meant that the exe never ran... If you are getting 0-length .txt files generated, this is most likely a comskip.exe problem. Try enabling the troubleshooting features to try to get more info for Jere, and post in the comskip thread...

[Hector]

I've been using this STV and comskip for a few weeks with my pvr-350 and I've not seen this.

The only downside to using this STV with the 350 IMHO is that it wants to launch the browser for a few things which we miss out on.

I REALLY like the idea of accessing web content (RSS feeds, weather, IMDB et al) but I would like to see it internalized as much as possible (like the weather module). Once you launch the web browser you lose everyone but the computer person in the house.

This is a really nice looking interface esp with the 350's quality output. It's a nice balance of form vs function. I think it's well thought out and quite elegant really, I was delighted to find I could edit the propertes of the disk guage for example.

Uhh so like short answer, no.

peace . . .

Originally Posted by Deadbolt

Wondering if anyone has seen this with a pvr-350 and Neilm's stv running Comskip:
When it is comskipping in the background...the screen will lock...if I hit pause then play it starts again...for a random amount of time before happening again (usually within 2-3 min). Mighty annoying.

[RedCoat999]

This is the best thread isn't it!

OK, when using MBLDUDE recording screen, after launching a file the comskip bars do not appear in the time bar. I switch over to the malore recording screen, and when i launch the same file the comskip bars appear. Am i the only one with this? I just like mlbdude recording screen so much better than malores
THanks

[nielm]

Originally Posted by gotuitdan

Actually, there is one other place: The sponsor links under the Weather Suite launch a browser. I guess my desire isn't so much to embed the details under RSS news stories, but to disable getting more details (and thus launching the browser) from within Sage.

Had a quick flash of inspiration about this... RSS feeds, IMDB and weather sponsors all launch the default web browser by running "cmd.exe start URL" If you change the property nielm/command_interpreter to a non existant command (garbage.exe), or to an exe which does nothing (such as attached nullexe.exe), then the browser startups will be blocked (I don't think it will have any other side-effects)... Another option is changing the system default browser to some exe that does nothing...

I am not going to put an actual option for disabling web browser as it would violate the licence for the weather.com feeds -- they require that the sponsored links are functional...

[turak]

[QUOTE=Endymion]

Originally Posted by jcato

Thanks, that will help, but it doesn't seem to work. When I run it I get:

V:\>cleantxt
i.mpg was unexpected at this time.

V:\>for /f "tokens=1 delims=." i.mpg (del i.txt)

You have to double up on the % to make it work or else it gets stripped out since you're running it from a batch file. Don't ask me why, it took me several hours of searching to figure this out.

So instead of the original, you need this:
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.txt') do if NOT EXIST %%i.mpg (del %%i.txt)

Sorry about the misinformation. I'm glad you found a solution that worked. Like I said when I posted this, I don't actually use this to clean my txt files. I'm more of a unix geek and I already had my video directories samba mounted on my linux box. So I wrote a perl script to take care of it. I just remembered stranger89 posting the for statement in the comskip thread and figured the easiest way to use it would be from a batch file. I didn't realise it would strip the %'s.

[gotuitdan]

Originally Posted by nielm

If you change the property nielm/command_interpreter to a non existant command (garbage.exe), or to an exe which does nothing (such as attached nullexe.exe), then the browser startups will be blocked (I don't think it will have any other side-effects)...

Thanks Nielm! I'll try this over the weekend. I presume the command interpreter property doesn't affect comskip, compress, or launching other external programs (I use myhtpc for music)?

thanks!

[nielm]

Originally Posted by gotuitdan

Thanks Nielm! I'll try this over the weekend. I presume the command interpreter property doesn't affect comskip, compress, or launching other external programs (I use myhtpc for music)?

Compress is not run by the STV (you have to run it manually to pickup the compression jobs)
Comskip is only run with cmd.exe when you enable the nielm/comskip_debug_output flag
Launching external programs from the menu.xml does not use this setting

[jptaz]

nielm,

Have looked more into internalizing the IMDB data using a local copy of the Database and AMD tool that you linked to earlier in this thread? I am downloading the local copy of the database and the tool and seeing what it generates. I am guessing it will not generate something that you can easily incorporate into Sage. Would it help if some one, maybe me, created a tool that would take the information from the tool and generated a XML file for you to display? I.E. you call an exe with the query request and then the exe would call AMD and generate an XML file with the data for you to read into SageTV?

Unless I am miss reading the License it appears that as long as you are not distributing the AMD program or the lists and you display all IMDB legal information you are with in your legal rights. So people would have to download the AMD tool and Lists from IMDB them selves.

Thanks,
John

[nielm]

Jptaz: thats exactly what I am looking into (except that the STV/java would call (are calling) the amdb tools and read/parse the output directly).

[jptaz]

What amdb tools are you using?

I have tried a lot of versions and only one of them has worked for me so far, but it is a front end to a mySQL DB.

John

[Deadbolt]

Originally Posted by nielm

Had a quick flash of inspiration about this... RSS feeds, IMDB and weather sponsors all launch the default web browser by running "cmd.exe start URL" If you change the property nielm/command_interpreter to a non existant command (garbage.exe), or to an exe which does nothing (such as attached nullexe.exe), then the browser startups will be blocked (I don't think it will have any other side-effects)... Another option is changing the system default browser to some exe that does nothing...

I am not going to put an actual option for disabling web browser as it would violate the licence for the weather.com feeds -- they require that the sponsored links are functional...

Maybe run a batch file that cleans up the unlinked .txt files (nielm/command_interpreter=cleanme.bat)

[nielm]

Originally Posted by jptaz

What amdb tools are you using?
I have tried a lot of versions and only one of them has worked for me so far, but it is a front end to a mySQL DB.

http://www.steffensiebert.de/amdb/
Only problem is that gendb sometimes chokes on some of the lists, but if you delete the last one it was working on, and retry it, it continues.
I will make the IMDB backend plug-able so other backends can be used.

[jptaz]

Yeah I found that out today, but didn't think to delete the one it choked on. Seemed kind of important since it was actors.

I think there is a java based one too.
http://www.amdbfront.com/

It includes source and docs too.
I found the windows based one with MySQL didn't choke on any of the lists...It looks like amdb is not been worked on for a while.

John

[bgorrell]

Thanks Nielm, you hit it on the head about the background file. I extracted with paths to the OriginalV2 directory, when I should have extracted to the SageTV directory or without paths. Working good now. Great work.

Originally Posted by nielm

bgorrel: I won't modify the archived shows screen, sorry, and as others have pointed out, all malores menus are included
I am not going to change the installation process. The separate zipfiles are there to save bandwidth -- each new version normally only needs an STV update, so you don't need to download unchanged icons/java/ -- and to prevent updates wiping your modified settings in menu.xml.
Ghost shadows of all the menus and text: sounds like your background image (Background1024.jpg) has disappeared, or has become corrupted. Maybe you installed into a different directory, or cleaned up the OriginalV2 directory.
My STV uses the images that are included with the OriginalV2 STV from Sage, so you still need all the stuff that was in that directory...