I've been using DabDig now for a few months to post process from two USB Nebulas and create a thumbnail and a .my file for myHTPC.

The problem of DigiTV holding on to recordings can be solved by recording to a directory that DigiTV does not look at (in Settings->Playback->General there's a list of directories it looks at) There's a thread or two on this subject in the Nebula forum. If you want to use DigiTV's interface to view/listen move the file once processed.

I have discovered a bug within DabDig (I think). I pass program name, series, description etc to my post processor but should any parameter contain double quotes it all goes wrong. It there a way to convert to single quotes which cause no problem? I tried playing with the Digiguide marker but couldn't get the VB replace function to work.

It is quite possible that double-quotes can cause a problem.

I get around this in the interface between DigiGuide and DABDig by replacing the quotes with something else and then converting back in DABDig.

Did the quotes get put in the file name as stored by Nebula - or were they replace with underscore?

If underscore - (which is what I think DABDig would have requested from the Nebula software) then you probably need to use a different parameter substitution (something like normalised filename $FN ... I am on a dial-up link right now and can't check the exact syntax)

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Perhaps should have been more specific. The quotes were in the description for the program.

I did suffer from other characters being converted to _ for a while. The filename passed to my script did not match the file created by DigiTV I now replace these with [space] as it seems DigiTV does the same and it all works out.

Thw recordings are still being made correctly, it is only the post process script that fails.

My parameters are:-

POSTPROCESSRECORDPARAM="$FP" "$DY-$DM-$DD $DH$DN" "$SS::$SE::$EP::$SY::$CT"

Strippimg out/replacing all double quotes from with your variables would probably do the trick?

Thanks for the quick response, more thanks still for writing DabDig.

As a quick hack ... if you switched the order of Synopsis and Category ... then you could assume that all parameters after the category must be the synopsis and join them back together.

OK - not great - but might be OK for an interim (especially as there are probably not many programmes with quotation marks in the description that you record).

Meanwhile - I'll add an option to convert " to ' (or maybe to anything you fancy).

DABDig creator

Change made - 256b07 is on its way to you.

DABDig creator

Looks like the mail cannot get through.

I'll stick it somewhere for you do download it.

DABDig creator

Success!! Replacing the double quotes has solved the problem.

Thanks for your assistance.