MCEBuddy - Channels DVR files

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#64

Awesome! got it to work! Thank you!

#65

Hey, I currently have MCEbuddy working fine and doing the job i want it to. Is there any update on your official export feature? Are there any plans, or have you thought to export recordings into a HEVC file to maximize storage?
Thank you for all the hard work you guys do!

  • Anthony
Can channels see/play converted files?
#66

Is there a way to disable the creation of the JSON files if I am no longer using MCEBuddy?

#67

iwr -method Delete http://127.0.0.1:8089/dvr/hacks/mcebuddy

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#68

Awesome, worked like a charm! Now I won’t have a bunch of folders with JSON files lingering around even through I deleted the shows from Channels DVR.

#69

I’ll update the DVR to delete the json files when a recording is deleted.

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#70

Can you adjust the update to remove all files with the same name?

This would really help those of us using a third party recording aggregator. One example, would be Emby which adds .nfo files or even Channels with the newly added .edl function.

Thanks

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#71

I was going to post a similar request as I notice since edl files are created alongside our recordings when I delete a recording after watching the edl file stays behind and becomes clutter.

#72

Latest pre-release build will delete nfo/edl/json

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#73

Sorry, guess I joined late. How do I get the .nfo files I would like to see for recordings instead of deleting them as you say?
I figured out by stumbling through the forum how to create a .json file for all available recordings, but am unaware how to get the .nfo files I’d prefer.

#74

There are no nfo files in the DVR. Someone else mentioned them earlier.

#75

This works great, but on some shows I also have .jpg and .png …probably created by Emby (?) but could be another media manager since I have been trying so many. Would really like to see xxxx.* deleted.

Thanks

#76

Channels doesn’t create .nfo files. The only solution that I’ve seen create is Emby. You can use the free version.

Edit: Just run Emby…point to Channels folders when you add to libraries.

#77

Caught the post, but now I see the thread titled MCEBuddy, off to do more homework…

Thanks, thought maybe Channels DVR created .nfo files.

Many media managers available, I currently use TinyMedia Manager to scrape, create metadata NFO’s and artwork.

#78

Is there a standard nfo format? I haven’t seen one in years

#79

The only “Standards” I’ve seen and followed are;
NFO files - Official Kodi Wiki
and
NFO Tutorial - TheTVDB.com

For WiKi and history see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nfo

Doesn’t mean it’s a “standard”, but closest I’ve seen in my recent research to finding something standard enough that lets you lock down your metadata and keeps “metadata scapers” from messing with your media file metadata, like wrong SE#EP# lookups for a TV Series, wrong Title match for a Movie, made for TV-Show Movie, documentary and home made videos you can’t scrape on an Inet site, etc. I would prefer to edit my .nfo files vs. joining a website to edit metadata someone else can delete or change. Do it once, correct and keep your own info.

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#80

So I've just started playing with this. Conversion seems to work ok and the file size gets way smaller however I do get the file renamed to .mp4 and can't seem to figure out how to get it to keep the name the same. I have renaming off. I'm using the MP4 normal profile. Shrunk the file down I'd say from about 3G to 600M, so worth it for sure!

#81

Is Mcebuddy reading the json file when in the same folder or is there something specific that needs to be set?

Not really sure what Mcebuddy does with the json file. I don't notice any changes in the file name after Mcebuddy converts it. Appreciate any info given.

#82

The Mcebuddy logs will show you if it is reading the json files or not.

I did a test and it does read the JSON files ... Maybe your renaming is wrong ....

2019-08-10T18:39:43 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Trying to match nPVR/SiliconDust series showname -> Two Sentence Horror Stories S01E01 2019-08-08 Gentleman 2019-08-08-2059
2019-08-10T18:39:43 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Looking for Season/Episode information in text
2019-08-10T18:39:43 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Pattern 1, Found Season/Episode information in text, Season:1, Episode:1
--> Looking for Premiere Year information in text
2019-08-10T18:39:43 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Successfully matched nPVR/SiliconDust series filename metadata
INFORMATION> 2019-08-10T18:39:43 MCEBuddy.MetaData.FileExtractMetadata --> Extracting JSON Tags
2019-08-10T18:39:43 MCEBuddy.MetaData.FileExtractMetadata --> Extracting Channels DVR metadata
2019-08-10T18:39:43 MCEBuddy.MetaData.FileExtractMetadata --> JSON Metadata source -> Channels DVR
--> Extracted JSON tags:
Title: Two Sentence Horror Stories
SubTitle: Gentleman
Description: A serial killer with an obsession for single moms stalks a young mother who rejected him.
Network:
Network Affiliate:
Parental Rating:
Media Credits:
Genres: Horror,Anthology
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Banner:
Banner URL:
IMDB Id:
MovieDB Id:
TVDB Id:
Is Show Movie: False
Is Show Sports: False
OriginalBroadcastDateTime: 2019-08-08T00:00:00
RecordedDateTime: 2019-08-09T04:00:00
SeriesPremiereDate: 1900-01-01T00:00:00
CopyProtected: False
SageTV FileID:
SageTV MediaFileID:

#83

Thank you. I did find in the log that MCEBuddy is reading the json file correctly. I appreciate the info.