How to force checking for duplicates?

[Scott McNay]

Hello!

I haven't posted here in ages, since the V3 beta (back when it was still SSPVS).

Anyhow, I'm trying to take advantage of the duplicate checking without filling up my hard drive with shows that I've already dumped to DVD. I'm using this to create 1-second clips of shows:

c:
cd\
for %%a in (*.wmv) do if not exist "h:\stubs\part\%%a" asfchop -in "%%a" -out "h:\stubs\%%a" -start 00:00:00 -end 00:00:01

C:\ is where new shows are stored, and I've already pulled out the unsatisfactory recordings and edited the filename to my preference; BTV can see it.

H:\stubs is where the 1-second clips are stored; BTV can see it.

H:\stubs\part is where I manually move clips for incomplete multi-part shows; BTV can NOT see it.

The 1-second clip created by asfchop has all of the show information, including show title, episode title, etc. However, the clips do not seem to get used by BTV for duplicate checking. Any suggestions?

--Scott.

[jkoon]

Well I have never messed with any of this stuff personally but perhaps you need to incorporate something involving the unique episode id (epgid?).

[Scott McNay]

How is the epgid determined? By the station, or what? If so, the problem might be due to recordings being from two different stations. I don't suppose that I can do much about that.

--Scott.

[Scott McNay]

I took a look in SlaveStoreCollection.xml, and the epgid is the same for both.

The items that are different are Size, TargetRecordTime, ActualRecordTime, RecordTimeZoneIDFlag (older is TIME_ZONE_ID_DAYLIGHT, while the one that recorded today is TIME_ZONE_ID_UNKNOWN), ActualDuration (TargetDuration is 3600 for both), ShowAddingTime (presumably the time it was added to SlaveStoreCollection.xml). No unexpected differences. Could it be that if the ActualDuration is significantly less than TargetDuration, it forces the show to be recorded again?

--Scott.