PlayList_Manager & Record_This - Page 4

sure - ran it again with align - files in the y and w virtual directory are listed as missing

here is the resulting playlist:
MYHDPLIST1

Very interesting.

Another complexity that you could think about adding would be some kind of space buffer to leave on each drive for other things. I mean, say you normally use the D: drive as your recording folder, but you have the E: drive with an extra 60gig on it. On the E: drive you want to keep 20 gig open for other programs (space to rip a dvd or two to hold for processing, for example). You could put a limit to the E: drive (say 20 gig) at which point the folder would switch to a new drive or something.

-Suntan

Plus the ability for it to go out to the kitchen and make me a grilled cheeze sandwich would be nice...

Watch out! This could morph/mutate in the infamous Good Times virus!

- Phil

AllenDB,
I've been following this thread for some time now and I commend you for the work you're doing. However, for the life of me, I cannot figure out just how to use, or why I need this program. Is there a specific thread that will explain of do you plan a manual in the future.
Gary

AllenDB, I too like Gary in NY have read everything posted about the your PLM and can't figure it out. I downloaded it and tried just a few lines from the ini file (using MYHD card) and it seems to work looking at the log file. But when I look at my play list I see the same listing I would have gotten without your PLM. I didn't use the "Schedule" option because I interpreted it to help those with the Fusion card. I really like the playlist format from your program posted on this forum and would love to learn how to use the ini file to produce it. I really appreciate all the hard work you have done on this project to make our lives more enjoyable.

Even if you do only have a single pc with just the MyHD in it this program is usefull.

If you cut the commercials out of a .tp (that MyHD recorded) with HDTV2MPEG2 it would create a new .ts file. MyHD would not add this new file to your 'file' list, so you would have to manually add it. With Allen's program, it will just be there the next time you run this program.

Also, MyHD will list the title of the recorded program with the date it was recorded, but the date is all mashed together and, imo, more confusing than it is useful. Allen's program will automatically add the date in a legible form that is usefull.

-Edit-
@crazy8

You need to be exact in the lines typed into the ini file you use.

I too had nothing happening the first few time I tried to create a script for it. Some of the commands require something like "<<" or ">>" in front of them (I am doing this from memory as I am work so those exact symbols may not be right) and don't get the specific symbol needed confused with the symbol needed to turn a line into a comment line.

...hope that wasen't too confusing.

-Suntan

Thanks! You answered my questions. I only have a MYHD card and I use HDTV2MPEG2 but I tell it to add the ext. tp. I do like the way PLM does the date so I will have to play around with it more. I wasn't using the "Show Date" option. Now if I could only automate HDTV2MPEG2 so I don't have to manually process each file. :-) I know "What a couch potato". :-)

Thanks again Allen - no more missing files for me.

For those that are asking - for me I don't have to hassle with manually adding files to the MyHD playlist after processing commercials out or recording with firewire connection from my cable box to another computer. Or manually removing a number of entries for missing files because I either deleted the files after processing or after watching. This is all with one click but perhaps I will just add a windows task to run it once a day or so so I can just watch the shows

Makes using the remote and the favorite button all I need for file playback.

I suppose if you have windows explorer open and want a particular file it doesn't do much as you could just click on the file

Thanks, AllenDB. I understood the proper usage of the record and the sans quotes from your sample ini file write up. I was guessing that the two together was a convenient way to remark out and option. I will try different options and check the results.

Actually Cris Moore indicates he is going to work on this after fixing some other problems with H2M

So for me the perfect couch potato situation would be to have a batch file that processed the files with the soon to be enabled auto-process feature and then run Allen's file to get a nice playlist from the set of processed files. Would have to be done outside MyHD as Allen's program won't run with MyHD on (well runs but doesn't change the playlist) and the H2M can't run on a file that is being recorded.

girder can easily automate the shutting down of MyHD, run Allen's program, then open MyHD back up. Running H2M (actully waiting for it to process all streams) before automating the next step, is a little harder.

However, I find H2M is still way too inaccurate to automate commercial elimination (not to get OT....)

-Suntan

AllenDB/Suntan:
Thanks for the info. I have a 130 running in a separate box only recording. And a 120 with the daughter card for playback in the living room. The 120 occasionally records when there is a scheduling conflict. It is a pain to manually add to the playlist over the network (foget about the wife). Can PLM be automated? Forgive me guys, I'm pushing 60 with no programming or batchfile experience. I'm running 2000 Pro on the playback machine and XP Pro on the record machine. Thanks for your patience.
Gary

Hi Folks,

I have installed the 130 in my HTPC, and I have connected the VGA dongle to a VGA-to-component cable which then runs to my plasma via a Denon 2803. The 130 output is set to YPrPb.

It is working except when the display is full-screen, i.e., fills the entire 16x9 display. I then get some sort of hum bars rolling through the display. (The 'bars' are horizontal, rolling vertically.) This effect is not dependent on the source bandwidth as either HD, digital or analog TV looks fine when letterboxed. If I switch between 'auto-letterbox' and 'auto-zoom' modes, letterbox is good, zoom (fills the screen) is bad.

I have replaced the VGA to component cable and wiggled everything. I also have an Nvidia video board connected directly to the plasma with DVI, which works well.

Any ideas?

thanks,

CB

Try the MyHD cable direct to the plasma and see if the picture gets better. I don't use the video switching on my receiver for just this reason.

- Mike

Ya know, Allen, I just went back and edited the "title" of my first post in this thread to see if that was possible. I think that the title of the #1 post is what's used for the Thread Title, so you could make this thread's name anything you want....

PM Bob Sorel.

Thread title changed.