[addon] BTV Command Line Tools

[psionic]

Originally Posted by ColdBrew

The installer posted here still requires .net 3.5. At least for Vista x64.

*shrug* ... beats me ... all binaries utilize .NET 2.0 as does BTV. Let it install if you want to .. it won't hurt anything.

Hmm... Vista xanything should have .NET 3.5 installed from the factory.

[leecole]

Would you consider adding a ShowSqueeze program that would schedule a recording to ShowSqueeze?

[psionic]

Originally Posted by leecole

Would you consider adding a ShowSqueeze program that would schedule a recording to ShowSqueeze?

I'll put it on the list. I'm bombarded at work and at school, so it might be awhile.

In my spare time, I've been trying to fix an edge case that BTVMetaData throws a NullReferenceException when importing the metadata.xml (BTV doesn't find the show to edit).

[leecole]

BeyondTv 4.9.1 latest version, MetaDataExtractor crashes, but there appears to be no system log entry.
Any ideas??

[leecole]

Originally Posted by leecole

BeyondTv 4.9.1 latest version, MetaDataExtractor crashes, but there appears to be no system log entry.
Any ideas??

Never mind! A reboot takes care of the problem.......

[kmitch]

Can you add Try...Catch blocks around the main sections of the program. in doing some testing, it looks like an unhandled exception gets back to the OS, and causes Doctor Watson (DW20.exe) to come up and try to send an error report to Microsoft.

[dk96m]

how do we edit this to add in the username and pw when security is enabled. When security is enabled, metadata crashes, when I disabled it, it worked again. I do not know how to edit this. Consider me a newb when it comes to this part. Thanks

[leecole]

Originally Posted by dk96m

how do we edit this to add in the username and pw when security is enabled. When security is enabled, metadata crashes, when I disabled it, it worked again. I do not know how to edit this. Consider me a newb when it comes to this part. Thanks

[Episode]
UserName= xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
PassWord= xxxxxxxxxx

[psionic]

Originally Posted by leecole

Never mind! A reboot takes care of the problem.......

Sorry for the non-response Lee. I've been off the grid for a while and I'm just getting everything going again.

[psionic]

Originally Posted by dk96m

how do we edit this to add in the username and pw when security is enabled. When security is enabled, metadata crashes, when I disabled it, it worked again. I do not know how to edit this. Consider me a newb when it comes to this part. Thanks

Lee's quite right. For the command line switch, you can look at this post for usage instructions or execute the program with no options.

[leecole]

Originally Posted by psionic

Lee's quite right. For the command line switch, you can look at this post for usage instructions or execute the program with no options.

If you have any time,
Would you consider adding a ShowSqueeze program that would schedule a recording to ShowSqueeze?
In AutoXvid, I would like to offer the option of using either AutoGK or BTV to do encoding after cutiing commercials.

[queler]

Does anyone know how to do anything with the values for date and time that are in the XML file, without using .net. I'm using the command line tools as a poor mans BTVShowInfo using VBA and Excel (I'm too far removed from decent coding skills) and I randomly get errors using BTVShowInfo. I can't figure out a way to decipher the datetime values without using .net, anyone know how to do it?

[leecole]

Originally Posted by queler

Does anyone know how to do anything with the values for date and time that are in the XML file, without using .net. I'm using the command line tools as a poor mans BTVShowInfo using VBA and Excel (I'm too far removed from decent coding skills) and I randomly get errors using BTVShowInfo. I can't figure out a way to decipher the datetime values without using .net, anyone know how to do it?

I have never heard or read any explanation, but I believe that it is milliseconds added to a specific date. The DOS system clock is a counter of milliseconds since a particular date (I don't know what that date is, 1960/01/01 00:00:00 perhaps?). You could calculate it by calculating the number of milliseconds in a single year and dividing that into a field that you know the value of.
That is the way I used in the AutoXvid package.

[Kilrsat]

"Contains a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601 (UTC)."

[leecole]

Originally Posted by Kilrsat

"Contains a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601 (UTC)."

Good! That sounds like an official answer. I was way off, in my implimitation, I just used the left most 11 bits, since I only needed to the nearest minute, and not knowing the start date, I just took one of the original recordings I ever made and used the recording date to calculate my own "magic number" to represent that recording date.