Tvheadend

Hi Guys,

I have read the wiki regarding this and I have tried these options but I still cant get it to work properly.
The reason I need it to display properly is because I am scraping the recorded episodes into a database.
$t_$F_pt$n.$x
$t_$F_pt$n+1.$x
$t_$F_pt$(n+1).$x

Is there anyway to increment $n by 1?

Cheers
Mark

As I understand it, Tvheadend increases n as needed. For example, if a recording was interrupted and restarted, it will start the second recording with an incremented "n".

Yes, my problem is I wanted the 1st recording to be n = 1 and any subsequent recordings +1,
then if two episodes of the same series records on the same night my scraper would recognize the correct recording as it is not possible to do this with time. This being the 1st recording pt1 and subsequent episodes pt2, pt3 etc

I wonder if as a workaround you could run a pre-recording script of touch "%f", which will create the expected file. Since this command is supposed to run before recording starts, TVH ought to see the file it wants to create as existing, and then increment "n" when it opens the file for recording. A subsequent post-record script with some basename, trim and sed magic should eliminate the touch-ed file (or just checking for a zero filesize) after the recording.