Peters Flexible RenAmiNg Kit (PFrank)

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

ok,

sorry but totally lost here...

How can I add the mediainfo plugin ?

I did :

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

I found a bug in the plugin. Give me a day or so to fix it as. Thanks very much for pointing this out.

You might not need a plugin as it is only required if the pre-defined commands of PFrank can't extract the data you want. Even then you would probably have to code the plugin yourself as the example plugin is a template (i.e. so far only insertion of video aspect ratio is provided; but coding of other insertions is straight forward).
Did you try the pre-defined commands for insertion of media data (video, music, etc?).
What kind of media data are you looking for and for what type of files.

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

HI, thanks for your quick answer...

Have a digital camera, and the only right date is the "encoded date" given by mediainfo. All others are wrong (modified created, ...). So I need this one to rename my movies...

Thanks again.

hubert

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

Hi Hubert,

The updated plugin is at:

http://www3.telus.net/pfrank/PFrank_MediaMetaData_Plugin.py

Just rename this file to 'PFrankUser.py' as you did the other one and move to the install folder.

I added a command for extracting the 'encoded date'
You should see the command at th top of teh 'Predefined Command' pull down list. Just insert it into the creator list and press scan.

The processing by the plugin is totally dependent on the format of the 'date encoded line'. I assumed the format is as shown in the plugin example. If your output is different than expected by the line processing function for the 'encoded date' class, then the processing will have to be modified.

ONe warning: The plugin checks for vaid filename extensions. The acceptable extensions are declared in the following line:

self.mediaextensions = [ ".avi", ".mpg", ".mov", ".qt" ]

If your filenames have different extensions, then just add them to the above (and let me know so I can add them to my copy).

If you have any problems then please send me sample output from mediainfo when run it against some of your video files.

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

hi sorry, but have more question. In the py file :

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

Yes - you need to install the command line version.

Then make sure that the path to the imageinfo exe matches that specified in the plugin.
In the plugin file look for the line:

mediainfopath = os.path.join("C:\\Program Files\mediainfo", "mediainfo.exe")

and modify the "C:\\Program Files\mediainfo" part to match the path on your PC.

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

hi, long time not here, sorry, was away for a long time...

Ok, I come closer and closer Smile

no I have forbiden characters : " / \ :" I think it's : between the time given by mediainfo. But I can't replace these ":" in the routine, can I ? Or making a second string search ":" replacing with "_" for example....

strange i found this :

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

Hi Hubert,

Yes the time.replace statement should have replaced any ':' with nothing (i.e. it should have deleted the ':' ).

Not sure why it didnt work unless the output is not as expected. An expected output sample is given a few lines above above the time.replace statement:

"Encoded date : UTC 2007-12-03 06:14:09"

If the output does not look as above, then the code has to be modified.

But it is much easier to just add another line in the custom renamer (after row that has the custom command) that searches for ':' and replaces with nothing.

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

Yep, agree with you "should have"...

the output is as you expected, I saw what mediainfo give :

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

Hi Hubert,

The error is not with the plugin. The error is complaining about the content of row 1 in the custom renamer. You probably have some characters in the search column. When you insert a command into a customer renaming row, then the search column must remain empty.

Delete the content of the search column of row 1. That should get rid of the error.

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

Omg , I can't explain better, like some said : "Better a good picture, rather than bad english" Smile

Same error. And when I put nothing in Row1, pfrank does nothing....

Does it work with your plugin ?

Thanks again...

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

Hi Hubert,

The diagram says it all.
You have to delete the 'SANYO' part (not the whole row)

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

Sorry, forgot to mention that I did blank the first search : does find nothing :

thanks again and agin Smile

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

Everything looks ok. Don't know why the data was not picked up by the plugin.
Would you please send me one of the smaller .mp4 files.
I'd like to try renaming it using the plugin.

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

Done, thanks. Hoping that I didn't make any mistake with installing cmd mediainfo and customizing the plugin....

Don't work with avi files as well

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

Hi Hubert,

I tested the SANYO file you sent me with the latest version of the command-line version of mediainfo. the output from mediainfo is null for that file. It appears that the SANYO file has no media info in it.
What kind of output do you get with comand-line version of mediainfo?

I'm going to bed now; it's getting late.
Let me know what you find out.

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

Good morning Smile

ok with the gui and here is the result given by the cmd version

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

HI Hubert,

OK - I found out that I was calling up the wrong mediainfo executable (it was an old version).
Once I fixed the path I found out the problem in the plugin.

In the plugin I had put in protection against processing invalid media files because the old version of mediainfo that I had would crash on them.

You need to change this line:

self.mediaextensions = [ ".avi", ".mpg", ".mov", ".qt" ]

to:

self.mediaextensions = [ ".avi", ".mpg", ".mov", ".qt", ".MP4" ]

Otherwise the plugin won't process your MP4 files.

That should do it!
Let me know if you have any other problems.

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

Sorry, all this work just for this ".MP4". I did add "*.mp4" (was case senstitiv Sad

)

Very sorry.... Anyways, it works Very Happy

!!!!!!

thanks

I just had to modify

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

Yes!

Glad it worked out.

I've uploaded a new mediainfo plugin file to the plugin web page. The revised file includes the .mp4 extension and extensions are no longer case sensitive.

All the best,

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

Ok, here is my "chain"...

Maybe there is a more beautiful chain, but i have this "_" on the end of my prefix that I have to delete....

anyway, works like a charm, thanks again Peter Smile

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

Sorry Peter,

I'm under windows 7 RC now,

did the same way as above and have issue adding encoded date....

The Mediainfo CLI give this :

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

Hi,

I thought that maybe the latest version of mediainfo (0.7.17) had different output but I tried it on my Windows XP system and all was fine.

The problem might be related to Windows 7.

Unfortunately I don't ahve access to a windows 7 system.

The PFrankUser.py file can be run standalone if you download and install python from:

http://www.python.org/download/

If you install it and run the file using the IDLE tool that comes with the python download, you'll see a section at the end of the file where you can insert full paths of files to test. Then you can add or uncomment print statements (especially this one: '#print "media data is: ", mediadata
'
All you have to do is remove the leading #. If you use IDLE, just press F5 to run the file and see what is printed.

Sorry I can't do more.
Hope that helps.

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

strange pfrank's python script cannot find the file

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

Hi Hubert,

The nameTable entry is correct. It works on my XP system. the comment about the test file being in the current folder is not correct - the file in the name table is specified with a full path starting from the D drive.

If you created a file called SANY0006.MP4 and put it in your D drive and the script can't access it, then all I can think of is that this might be a permissions problem.

Peter.

hubert · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 15

I'm very sorry Peter :

1. Tested permission : ok
2. the Mediainfo path was not good (don't know why I changed it with the edit function in Pfrank)
3. relaunched Pfrank with the edited file in python gui : works !

sorry, you were loosing your time cos of me Sad

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

Not a problem Hubert.
Glad everything worked out.

Peter.