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enigma2_dreambox_scanner

A plex movie scanner using the ts.meta info for dreambox recorded satellite movies

This is a first attemp, with much to many debugging, to get a better insight how movie scanners interact wit the Plex Media Server.

Code seems to be running with PMS 0.9.10.x version.

Currently it has following features

  • uses the ts.meta file to retrieve the prgramname and movie release year.
  • If no ts.meta file is found, it will extract the programname from the ts file name.
  • It only supports the dreambox enigma2 file format.
  • Only Movies are supported.

TODO

  • Skip series if found in the Movie Section
  • Write something simulalar fot the series (in progress)
  • Add support for more possible ts.meta formats, if enough examples can be found

Configuration

As agent, I selected the moviedb/freebase. Whenever I select local data, and because my database contains the original ts filenames (with the date/channel stuff) it will select those as movie title, making everything messed up.4 Database cleanup is something I'm looking at.

Some observations

  • after upgrading PMS, force refresh only calls the scanner if something is really changed.
  • To test the scanner, i had to delete the library and add it again.
  • Since upgrade, the --analyze process is eating up all CPU, resulting into an unresponsive web client.
  • Got loads as high as 50, running 50 analyze processes, but after couple of hours, system still works

Things I need more info on

  • reduce analyze process load
    • touch jpg file ? => this seems to work, will add this to the code.
    • set global --nothumb flag ?
    • move the analyze process in batch to a very p[erformant server (which could be shut down when not used)
  • writing an agent using the *.eit

The .eit file of dreambox recordings

Delving in the code, it seems to me the dreambox eit files are just a part of the Event Information Table description (ETSI EN 300 468). It contains the data as described in table 7 : Event Information Section, especially the part in the first for loop, starting with the event_id field.

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