Peters Flexible RenAmiNg Kit (PFrank)

martix · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 17

Well, you challenge anyone to come up with something PF can't do. Here's my entry.
Ok, I got seven seasons worth of subtitles to rename. Thats a lot of files(~24 per season).
Task: Rename all the subtitles to match the names of the video files. Like - vid name "vid.avi" -> sub name should be "vid.sub"
How to do it:
Directories are named with a prefix and number of season.
Take avi files, first number is the season number(may be one or 2 digits). Second number is always 2 digits(number of episode).
Subtitles are named in diffrent ways but have the same general numbering pattern. So using that find corresponding subtitle and rename it to match its episode.
How's that? Smile

Now I could come up with the regexes eventually(help file should decrease that time to several hours only Razz

).
But I have no idea how to make it take data from the directories/video files. No variables or stuff like that to carry it over. I guess User Commands are the key. But I don't know python.

admin · Site Admin Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 448 Location: Canada

I don't think you will need to write a user-defined command since there is a way to get video info form video files and to extract info from folder names.
There is also a way to group files for common renaming. However, I won't be sure until I get some specific examples from you.
If you can please supply some before-names and the expected new-names then I'll try to come up with something for you.

Peter.

martix · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 17

I was out for the holidays, but I'm back now.
Well say folder name is tng-1, video file name is Star Trek TNG - 1x08 - Justice.av and subtitle name is Star Trek TNG [1x08] - Justice [AMC].srt
OR
Folder: tng-5; video file: Star Trek TNG - 5x04 - Silicon Avatar.avi; subtitle: Star.Trek.TNG.S05E04.Silicon.Avatar.DVDRip.DivX-SFM.srt
I hope you got what I want to do...

martix · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 17

admin · Site Admin Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 448 Location: Canada

Below is a combo regex and predefined renaming sequence that works for the examples provided. The sequence can be modified/ecpanded as required depending on other variations that may be present in the names.
You should be able to block copy the sequence with the mouse and paste directly into the custom table with CTL-F2 (actually if you block copy this entire reply and insert with CTL-F2, then that should work too!).

=======sequence starts here ================
Row: 1
Search: '(?iEx) [.] # translate dot to blank'
Replace: ' '
Row: 2
Search: '(?xi)DVDRip|\-SFM|Divx # remove these words'
Replace:
Row: 3
Search: 'S[0]*([1-9]+)E([0-9]+)'
Replace: ' - \1x\2 - '
Row: 5
Search: '\[([0-9])'
Replace: ' - \1'
Row: 6
Search: '([0-9])\]'
Replace: '\1 - '
Row: 7
Search: '\-[ ]+\-'
Replace: '-'
Row: 8
Search: '(?Ex) [\{\(\[]+.*?[\]\}\)]+ # remove brackets + contents'
Replace:
Row: 10
Search:
Replace: '*Delete All Extra Whitespace in*Prefix*'

=======sequence ends here ================

Let me know how it works for you.

Cheers,

Peter.

martix · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 17

Well it does what its supposed to do.
But not exactly what I needed. It did work for some, the others I did by hand eventually...
Now just some discussion. How it should have worked.
1. Use some number data to pair up each video file with its corresponding subtitle.
2. Take the name of video file, without the extension, and apply it to the previously matched subtitle.
So with a folder named "fold-1" and video file "name-1x05.avi" - find the matching sub "blabla s1e05.srt" and replace the italic text with the bolded text.

Now problem is pattern matching works only within the current name. You can't match a pattern in some file and use it to rename another without User Commands I think.

admin · Site Admin Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 448 Location: Canada

There are a couple of things that can be done.
1) The imperfect but relatively simple solution:
expand the custom list that I gave you to take care of other formats. It should save you lots of time if you can rename the majority of the files.

2) The perfect but complicated solution:
This requires some regex rows similar to row 3 in the sequence I already gave you plus a user-defined command. The regex rows first would massage the season/episode numbers of each name to the same format. The user command would extract the season/episode pair from each name and create 2 hash tables; one for the avi files and the other for the srt files. The key for each table would be the season/episode specifier and the entries would be the episode names.
If we assume that the avi files have the true episode names (is this true???), then at the end of the scan you would have to process the list of srt files and use the key to extract the desired name from the list of avi files.
One problem is that there is no post processing function defined in the user command api. I'll plan to add this in a future release
In the mean-time, a work-around would be to first separate the avi and srt files into separate folders. Name the folders so that the one with the avi files is alphabetically before the one with the srt files. Then run PFrank. When Pfrank processes the files, the avi files will be processed first and the avi hash table can be built completely before the first srt file is processed.
With the avi table completely built, the next files processed will be the srt files which would just extract the titles from the avi table using the season/episode keys.
You could even use the pathbuilder feature in the last row to move the files to folders named after the TV series title and the season number.

If you don't have any programming experience then (2) probably sounds daunting. If you have programming experience, then it should make sense. With Python, hash table creation/processing is trivial.
If I have time, I might be able to whip something up. Otherwise if you would like to give it a whirl I could advise you on what to do. Otherwise suggestion (1) will, hopefully, save you lots of time.

Peter.

martix · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 17

I adapted the custom list to include the other format and it reduced the work by hand to a handful of files. Which I renamed manually. So now the task is done and no need to worry about it.

Now on a purely technological level:
Perfection is always better than bruteforcing... Smile

The avi's do have the true names, so you're right. I do have some previous programming experience, but not in Python. Though if I took some time to look up a few things, I'm sure I'd manage... Sort of makes sense, I reckon that would work.
On a side note, a search for batch/bulk renaming utilities on Google didn't mention PFrank in any of the beginning pages and being better than even most paid ones I think its a shame. (Suggestion: Do some optimizing) Very Happy

Thanks.

//Martin

admin · Site Admin Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 448 Location: Canada

I'm open to making any optimizations especially if it will lead to PFrank being listed on the first page of a Google search!
Did you have any specific optimizations in mind?

If you or anyone else can suggest any improvements then I'm definitely listening Smile

Peter.

martix · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 17

I'm not a specialist in this, but using tons of keywords for example. For all the features. Whatever synonyms you can find. Thats a way I know of. Perhaps there are others, I can do some research when I got time this weekend.