DTb Actions

Update: October 8th, 2008

Actions, Contexts, and Conditions

Actions (aka “Plugins”)

  • AdjustMetaData
  • Cleanup
  • ContextSeed
  • ConvertDVRMStoMPEG
  • ConvertToWMV
  • ConvertToWmvIC
  • CopyToPPC
  • CreateDVRPROJ
  • DeleteFile
  • DoNothing
  • DumpCommercialsXml
  • DVRMS2MPEGStreams
  • DVRMS2WMA
  • DvrmsCutOutCommercials
  • FileOperation
  • FindCommercials
  • FWThrottle
  • MigrateContextValue
  • MoveOutputFile
  • MPEG2WMV
  • RenameFile
  • RenameInputFile
  • RunExternal
AdjustMetaData

Description: Adds WM/ToolName and WM/ToolVersion tags, edits WM/WMRVEndTime and WM/MediaOriginalRunTime (FixSlider), edits WM/SubTitleDescription (AddTooledDescription), and edits WM/WMRVScheduleItemID (IncrementScheduleItem).
Reads Context: CutDvrmsFile (optional), CutCommercialsDvrmsFile (optional)
Writes Context: None
Configure: AddTooledToDescription (true/false), FixSlider (true/false), IncrementScheduleItem (true/false), MetaMarker (text)

Cleanup

Description: deletes contents of the temp directory
Reads Context: None
Writes Context: None
Configure: None

ContextSeed

TBD

ConvertDVRMStoMPEG

Description: converts a DVRMS to an MPG
Reads Context: Graph (optional), InputFile, CutDvrmsFile, OutputFile, MultiplexorFilterGuid, FileOutputFilterGuid,
Writes Context: TempMpeg (optional)
Configure: FinalRender (true/false)

ConvertToWMV

Description: converts a specified context file DVRMS to WMV using DVR2WMV
Reads Context: *, OutputFile
Writes Context: None
Configure: CompatibilityMode (true/false), ContextFile (context value, file to convert), PrxName (text, path of prx file to use), TwoPass (true/false)

ConvertToWmvIC

TBD

CopyToPPC

TBD

CreateDVRPROJ

TBD

DeleteFile

Description: Deletes a specified context file
Reads Context: *
Writes Context: None
Configure: AreYouSure (true/false), ContextFile (context value, file to delete)

DoNothing

Description: Does nothing
Reads Context: None
Writes Context: None
Configure: None

DumpCommercialsXml

Description: Writes commercials found in FindCommercials to an Xml file (mainly for CommericalSkipAddIn)
Reads Context: Commercials
Writes Context: None
Configure: None

DVRMS2MPEGStreams

Description: converts a DVRMS to the base MPG/cc streams
Reads Context: InputFile, CutDvrmsFile, OutputFile
Writes Context: TempMpeg (optional)
Configure: FinalRender (true/false), MuxVideoForComskip (true/false)

DVRMS2WMA

Description: Converts DVR-MS file to WMA using specified WME profile (prx file)
Reads Context: OutputFile, *
Writes Context: None
Configure: ContextFile (context value, file to convert), PrxName(text, path to WME profile)

DvrmsCutOutCommercials

Description: Uses Toub’s DVRMS splicer to cut out commercials
Reads Context: InputFile, FrameRate, Commercials, OutputFile,
Writes Context: CutDvrmsFile or CutCommercialsDvrmsFile
Configure: AllowedIterations (text, number of iterations at the same progress before canceling), OutputCommercials (true/false), SaveOutput (true/false)

FileOperation

TBD

FindCommercials

Description: uses comskip to find commercials in mpg file
Reads Context: TempMpeg, Debug (optional),
Writes Context: FrameRate, Commercials
Configure: None

FWThrottle

TBD

MigrateContextValue

Description: Copies a context value to another context value
Reads Context: *
Writes Context: *
Configure: ContextSource context value, name of context value to copy), ContextDestination (context value, name of context value to write to)

MoveOutputFile

Description: Move a specified context file to a specifed location, sets context file to new location
Reads Context: *
Writes Context: *
Configure: ContextFile (context value, file to move), DeleteExisting (true/false), DestinationPath (text, if UseRecordedTVPath is selected this is ignored, otherwise path to move to), UseRecordedTvPath (true/false)

MPEG2WMV

TBD

RenameFile

TBD

RenameInputFile

RenameInputFile

Description: Replaces text with alternate text in the input file name
Reads Context: InputFile
Writes Context: InputFile

RenameInputFile
Configure: MatchExpression (text, text to find), ReplaceExpression (text, text to replace with)

RunExternal

Description: Runs an external command
Reads Context: TBD
Writes Context: TBD
Configure:
RunExternal

ProcessName: full path to program to run (do not use quotes)
ArgumentsContext: any arguments to the program

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