Automatic video join plugin? (1 Viewer)

[jjagged]

Hello

Here in Sweden we have an annoying tv channel that sometimes splits its programs in two, showing 20 minutes of news and ads inbetween. Since the news is listed as a program itself, XMLTV will interpret the two parts as different programs. This results in two files in the recordings list: "Show" and "Show (continued)". This is not nice. I also have to remember to set both parts to record.

Is there any plugin that can automatically join recordings based on their name, for instance? I wouldn't think so, but I want to check.

If there is none I would like to try to write such a plugin, to get familiar with the inner workings of MP, and to learn C# better. But I have no idea of where to begin. Is it even possible to accomplish this with a plugin? I've got the MP source code, but as with any large project it quite a lot to browse through...

 

[Ralph]

No automation, yet.
How should it work?
If I record for example 2 shows of King of Queens, than they would be joined as one, automatically?
Not quite usefull to join every recordings that have the same name?
But maybe you have something different in mind?

Right now you can use VideoEditor (formely know as DvrMpegCut-Plugin) for joining your recordings.

It comes with MP itself.
Just open Setup-> Plugins-> VideoEditor (DvrMpegCut).

Give it a try, maybe it will help you creating some kind of automation-plugin?

Regards
Ralph

 

[jjagged]

I've been thinking about it a bit, and the behaviour of the plugin would be quite specific. It would optimally work like this:

When I set a program to record (say the "King of Queens" that you mention), the plugin automatically checks if there is another program later on the same channel with almost the same name ("King of Queens continued") it sets that program to be recorded as well. When both programs have been recorded, they would automatically be joined into one file, named as the first program.

Simple eh? Well, perhaps not, but that's what I would like to accomplish.

I will check the VideoEditor out, so I'll know how to join the movies.

Thanks