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It has been discussed before https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/split-transmissions-not-correctly-handled-by-humax-scheduler.9620/ but basically you would end up with the equivalent of a manual timed recording which you can set up yourself. You lose any tracking of schedule changes but you also prevent the Humax incorrectly recording repeats of the film
Something like schedchk could keep a table of recent linked programmes so that some other tool could identify and join the parts.
However another key observation from the linked discussion is that the scheduling of the linked programmes and the "intermission(s)" is often haphazard, so that manually recording the whole thing (and snipping out the intermission(s)) is a better bet than trying to join the parts.
Black Hole
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If you have to go snipping out anything, you might just as well do the joining instead.
To adapt Muddy Waters, "You can't watch what you ain't got, you can't join what you ain't never had" [recorded].
OK. thanks for that.
What if I could join any similarly named genre:Movie file
Movie_Name_[date1]_[time1]
Movie_Name_[date2]_[time2]
Where date2_time2 is less than say 5 hours later than date1-time1 or the date times differ
I wouldn't have two similarly named movie files in the base folder for any other reason as I would move non-matching movies to the Films folder
I could nearly do the match in sweeper except the variables reset on each file iteration 
EDIT: I can move these files to a specific folder Join/%title .. so all I need is sweeper to join
But of course sweeper can't join. But could it?
PS: I'm not snipping anything.. just trust the recording schedule and be damned.
What if I could join any similarly named genre:Movie file
Movie_Name_[date1]_[time1]
Movie_Name_[date2]_[time2]
Where date2_time2 is less than say 5 hours later than date1-time1 or the date times differ
I wouldn't have two similarly named movie files in the base folder for any other reason as I would move non-matching movies to the Films folder
EDIT: I can move these files to a specific folder Join/%title .. so all I need is sweeper to join
But of course sweeper can't join. But could it?
PS: I'm not snipping anything.. just trust the recording schedule and be damned.
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Black Hole
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I'm not sure this is the same thing. Forgive me if I'm wrong
Currently I have the Movie recorded as two files. The first stops at the News item and the second starting when the Movie returns.
I'm not bothered about removing scraps of adverts or whatever, I don't remove adverts anyway as it's too much hassle.
So all I need to do is identify the two files (done) and somehow join then (can't do).
I realise the result would be sub optimal. I can live with it.
With nicesplice-magic-folders installed, perhaps sweeper could move your parts into the magic join folders and later retrieve the result from the magic joined folder. Then it can queue that result for ad-detection (set bookmarks only) so that you'll be able to skip ads as you watch the film.
I don't think this would be far from optimal.
I don't think this would be far from optimal.
Black Hole
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Nobody said it was, but it is another way to skin the cat and has been discussed before.
That's a good idea, I had forgotten NMF offers a join option. It should be possible to automate that through sweeper, if a way can be found to identify the parts which need to be joined.
[nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing
Over the last few weeks, with the nights drawing in I've been working on a little project to bring on-box editing to our HD/HDRs. My old Digifusion box could do it and I've missed it. The result is nicesplice and its just about ready for release into the wild... There are a couple of new...
I find it is usually best to record the whole programme including the 'break'. The broadcasters frequently get the start times wrong which usually results in missing the start of the second part if recorded using AR.
There are many examples on the "Sony Movies" channel. As a test, you can just record the "breaks" and see how many include some of the second part of a film.
There are many examples on the "Sony Movies" channel. As a test, you can just record the "breaks" and see how many include some of the second part of a film.
Black Hole
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As it happens, I recorded Sweet Charity recently and did not have that problem.
Here are the approximate timings when recording some instances of the 5 minute breaks (Sony Movie News) from today:
09:55 - All Film
13:55 - 2 mins Ads, 1 min Movie News, 2 mins Film
15:45 - 15 secs Film, Ads, Movie News which ends on time
17:35 - Ads, Movie News, 80 secs Film
19:20 - 30 secs Movie News, 4 mins 30 secs Film
It's not great. But that's where I am with the EPG - press record and go.
Using sweeper wasn't as straight forward as I thought but I show-horned a solution with sweeper and nicesplice as suggested. It needed sweeper on the source folder AND the /[edit]/[join]/ folders: section2, done and original.
There might be a more elegant set of rules but sweeper is a curious beast. I might put files up on github.
Black Hole
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Yes. sweeper rules are easiest if made local to one folder. You can define recursive rules, and apply them to the whole My Video tree, but then it's difficult to filter out just the instances you want it to act on (unless you do want it to act on everything). It's only one instance of sweeper that's actually running, it scans the folder tree for rule sets.
Why? Only developers look on Github, if you aim to give normal users the benefit of your experience all you need to do is get the text version of your rules (within the sweeper GUI click the "Text Editor" button), and post them on the forum in a code box. Simples.