Tvheadend

The "$q" format specifier and its variants (#4667) formats the entire title and may be useful to you.

Thank you Em - this looks amazing.

TVHeadend just keeps getting better and better.

Based upon the revisions notes, I think that the best option for me would indeed be to keep movies in their own separate folder.

This being the case - is it that the only thing I need to do is change my default profile string to $3q?

You probably want "$3q$n.$x". The "$n" ensures a unique filename if the file already exists. The "$x" is the file extension.

Thank you Em.

It is really nice to have separate folders for films and TV, when I press the record button.

Out of interest, how well do you find the sorting works in practice (given that I am using the same method of EPG grabbing as you)?

I tried recording five films, yesterday, and only one of them was identified as such and placed in the movie folder.

It should work all the time with the grabber and most of the time with OTA. I use $q instead of $3q, but the code path for determining movie is the same.

It checks the category for "film" or "movie". That should exist for any feature film, short film, or tv movie.

Were the other films placed in to the tvshows directory? Or elsewhere? Perhaps they are using a different recording profile?

When recording, if debug is enabled then it will log "is_movie = x" if it is using the $q/$[123]q specifiers.

If you keep the imported epg xml files then you can check the entry for one that failed and one that worked and post them here. (Doesn't matter which channel you post since the details should be the same).

Had another look at this and whenever I set a recording, I never get "is_movie = x" in the log.

Any other thoughts on what I might do to get this working?

I tried changing to to the string to $q$n.$x but am still having the same problem.