Paul (or anyone else!)

I am trying to achieve 2 things - I can do them both, but not at the same time!!

I'd be grateful for any ideas...

1/ File recordings by channel to make them easier to find.

If you set

NEBULADIGITVRESETHOMEDIR=D:\Recordings\ (or whatever)

This works beautifully, as long as you have

NEBULADIGITVALLOWFORCEEXIT=2

set I think. I'm guessing that this is because the nebula only reads the record location at startup.

2/ Deal with clashes nicely - I use my Nebula for TV and radio (my psion wavefinder just isn't stable enough - it locks up after a while)

As long as you have

NEBULADIGITVALLOWFORCEEXIT=0

then the nebula will record to the end of a show, even if you have another marker set - this is great, but it messes up the above.

if you have it set to 2, then the next marker trashes the previous one, meaning that you only get a part recording - of course you don't notice, start watching the programme, and then 5 mins from the end it just stops and your wife shouts at you & you explain about bleeding edge technology etc etc.

I guess the answer is to get nebula to develop filing by channel at their end, how responsive are they?

Is there any way of setting DABDIG and/or nebula so that it will record the 1st marked programme completely, and then close, to be re-opened to record the next programme? I've tried setting the 'Exit when timer expires' setting in the nebula, but it doesn't work...

Yet another approach which might help - does anyone know of a tool for detecting and warning about marker clashes in digiguide?

thanks for reading my ramble...

James

Edited by James Heath on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 4:11:37 PM

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I'm guessing that this is because the nebula only reads the record location at startup.

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Correct

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I guess the answer is to get nebula to develop filing by channel at their end, how responsive are they?

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They have been pretty responsive in the past but I think that it is getting more difficult to add new features plus support the roll-out of Digital TV to other countries (my guess).

They could also allow the full path to the recording to be specified - then I could tell it per recording where to put it.

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Is there any way of setting DABDIG and/or nebula so that it will record the 1st marked programme completely

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I am working on this in the background when I get spare time (not often). The idea is that DABDig will adjust the start time and duration of the overlapping programme (provided the previous programme recording was also initiated by DABDig).

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Yet another approach which might help - does anyone know of a tool for detecting and warning about marker clashes in digiguide?

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A new tool is in development from AMcDonald ... DigiGuide Conflict Wrangler ... see the DG forums.

Add DABDigR and DABDigL to its ini file.

Maybe use postprocess to move recorded file to the channel specific directory ... if DigiTV releases the file.

If your configured postprocess to call your batch file with the right parameters (file name and channel name might be enough) then something like (totally untested):

if exist c:\"my recordings\%2" then goto direxist
mkdir c:\"my recordings\%2"
:direxist
copy c:\"my recordings"\%1.mp* c:\"my recordings\%2"
if exist c:\"my recordings\%2\%1.mp*" goto worked
echo Did not work - %1 and %2
pause
goto end
:worked
rem del c:\"my recordings"\%1.mp*
:end

(once the copy part is working to your satisfaction then you could risk removing the "rem" at the start of the "del" line.

DABDig creator

Edited by Paul Webster on Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 1:28:59 PM

Paul,

I reckon you're right - post process is the way to go.

However I think the Nebula hangs on to the file like grim death, so I might use some VB script to put something together....

I also want to combine it with Squire's auto mp2 -> mp3 script.

Will post results here

Ta,

James

Paul,

I have something up & running now.

One slight hitch - I've resorted to VB - it's what I know!

Happy to email you or anyone a zip of the source code - the exe is fairly useless, as at the moment at least alot of the paths and the way I like things filed are locked up in the code....

atb

James

I'd be happy to have a go at rewriting it in VBScript and making it available as source

(everyone with DABDig has got a working VBScript engine).

DABDig creator