[mythtv-users] Using mythvidexport.py

[Jeremy Jones]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Lou Katz <lou at metron.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 09:00:59PM -0500, Jeremy Jones wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Lou Katz <lou at metron.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I made my first foray into user jobs with this, and it seems to work
> for
> > > new
> > > recordings. However, I have a whole bunch of older rcordings that I
> would
> > > like
> > > to move. I can see them fine in MythFrontend. Is there an easy way to
> find
> > > the
> > > %JOBID% so I can move them manually, or is there a way to apply the
> job to
> > > something long since recorded?
> > >
> > > Working on setting this up myself.  Userjobs can be run from the menu
> on
> > the recordings library.  navigate to 'job options' and select the userjob
> > you set up.
> >
>
> Thanks. Got that far, but ...
>
> I have recorded off the air 6 episodes of The Inspector Vivaldi Mysteries
> (MHz Network).
> When I run the job(s), each one just replaces what is there in Videos. I
> looked at the
> metadata, and there is nothing in the Season, Episode or Inetref fields.
>
> The episode descriptions show an episode number, and I entered Season 1,
> Episode N in
> each of the metadata screens, where N was the proper number (1 thru 6). No
> joy - it
> continues to only create a single output file and each one overwrites the
> previous.
>
> I tried to make up an Inetref entry. So far, either the above behavior
> remains unchanged,
> or for some values of Inetref, nothing happens at all and the recording is
> not copied over.
>
> However, if I run this from the command line, using --chanid and
> --starttime, it creates
> directories in ../Television and separate files for each episode.
>
> What am I missing?
>
>
> For the record, I am running both backend and frontend version
>         fixes/0.25 [1.0.25.2-15-g46eab93] on
> Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with Qt 4.81
>

You are getting further than me.  I have successfully run it from the
terminal, but as a userjob  it fails.  I modified the userjob to specify
the logfile last night and queued it to run again.  I check the jobqueue
this morning and saw that it failed, but have not inspected the logfile
yet.  Hopefully something in that logfile will help me.

As for your issue, you may need to change the name or path so that it
always has a unique path/name.  I assume that what you are experiencing is
based on insufficient metadata on the recordings being exported.

Based on the lack of response we are getting from other users, I assume
this is not used by others nearly as much as I would have thought.  Maybe
it just works for everyone else.  It seems like a really important (and
needs to be integral) part of the program to me.


Jeremy
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