Importing local content

[AeroR1]

@BSpan

I assume I have to live with this issue and there’s nothing we can do except hope that Channels DVR switches to a better database.

ever since local content was introduced a few years ago, a lot of people have been saying the same thing.

the basics are that CDVR uses gracenote since inception for DVR obviously, and when they added local content, they have to keep using gracenote so it works with recordings/library, etc.

the problem is that EVERYONE uses the TVDB naming convention which gracenote doesnt use. so here we are, with this problem.

we have to live with it and do tons of manual work to get it right. just dont do file location moves because it will reset and you will have to do it manually again.

[chDVRuser]

I remember when I was using Plex, they pounded it in your head to use Filebot to rename your imported files to match TVDB they were using at the time. I did a lot of file renaming at that time and still do when I want to keep a Channels DVR recording. So I change the filename Channels DVR records
from
Star Trek S01E101 2022-05-05 Strange New Worlds 2022-05-15-2110.mpg
to
Star Trek Strange New Worlds (2022) - S01E01 - Strange New Worlds (2022-05-05).mpg

[BSpan]

@chDVRuser

You find the episode and select Options > Fix incorrect match.

I think I have the hang of it! After following your steps, Channels DVR still shows the incorrect episode number (matching Gracenote), but now the episode name/description match the physical file.

Thanks again (also to AeroR1) for explaining all this.

@chDVRuser

I did a lot of file renaming at that time and still do when I want to keep a Channels DVR recording.

I don’t plan to put any Channels DVR recordings in my local library (which is centered around Plex), so it’s not an issue for me how it names its recordings.

I wonder if they could continue using Gracenote for recordings, but switch to TVDB for local content import (just for the episode name/description, and Gracenote for the 4:3 art). Although I assume they would have to pay double the db licensing costs. Regardless, I'm not going to hold my breath.

I would have never gone with Gracenote to begin with, I have a personal gripe with them - I had a very early MP3 player (years before the iPod) and I sat down and ripped my 600+ CD collection using MusicMatch Jukebox. As I recall, for about 1/4 of my CDs (all very mainstream) there was no CDDB data yet and I had to manually enter the album/track info, which I knew was getting added to CDDB. When I heard they sold the company for millions, profiting from my unpaid data entry, I was pretty miffed. They should have never gotten away with it. Since then, Gracenote has been bought and sold many times, but I still have a grudge against them.

[house_rs81]

Scratching my head regarding local content. I've tried several ways to get content that is in another folder on the same Synology NAS (DS220+) to sync, but everything fails unless I copy or move folders to the Imports/TV or Imports/Movies folders. These are all on /volume 1. What I thought I could do was to have the shows stored anywhere on my network and still get to them. Right now the content is visible on my non-Docker ChannelsDVR install, but they appear to have been copied there and taking up disk space. Is that normal or did I misunderstand what this can do. Ideal setup is to share a remote TV and Movies folder with both ChannelsDVR installations (Docker and non-Docker). Can anyone guide me on this? Thanks, Robert

[racameron]

@house_rs81

Scratching my head regarding local content. I've tried several ways to get content that is in another folder on the same Synology NAS (DS220+) to sync, but everything fails unless I copy or move folders to the Imports/TV or Imports/Movies folders.

Does the account that the DVR runs under have permissions to the shared folders hosting your stored content? It sounds like you are experiencing permissions issues.

[house_rs81]

Don't know. I'll have to look into that. I dropped this a while back because I could never get it to work, so I'm sort of restarting and hitting more walls. From within the NAS I am unable to see any folders outside the NAS, or I don't know how to do that. Do I need to login as a NAS administrator and configure permission settings? I should be able to do that.

EDIT: I found a tutorial to mount remote folder from WDMC to Syno. Any chance this is where I need to be? When I tried to mount the storage I got an error that the destination folder must be empty. That's fine. I can move out what I put in there originally and retry these steps.

Thanks.