The Enigma2 Direct Video Recording Manager is a GUI-based tool for managing, sorting and selectively deleting (duplicate) TV recordings made by an Enigma2 Linux-based TV recorder.
Features may be deleted or changed in functionality without further notice.
It may be that the documentation below is not updated in time and therefore
may not document the real behavior of the program.
If so, please let me know or open a Pull Request with a suitable correction.
Any help is appreciated. :)
I am not responsible if you use this program (wrongly) and/or destroy important files on your system.
Always check the file paths before deleting to be sure everything is correct!
- Minimalistic GUI frontend
- Easy to use (if you like keyboard shortcuts)
- No submenus
- Comment recordings or keep notes to them
- Mark recordings as good, bad or already mastered
- Read-only operations and no (automatic) deletion, so you have full control over your recordings and what you are doing
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JetBrains Mono font (you can change the font at the top of
dvr_manager.py) or any other (monospace) font -
OpenCV
cv2(tested: 4.9.0.80) -
FreeSimpleGUI (tested: 5.0.0)
Use the Package Installer for Python pip3:
pip3 install --user [--break-system-packages] opencv-python freesimpleguiLaunch the program in your shell and supply all directory paths in which recordings are stored as the program arguments (see example below). There is currently no option to add or manage loaded directories via the GUI.
./dvr_manager.py <dir path> [dir path...]| Keyboard Shortcut | Explanation |
|---|---|
| O | Open the first of the selected recordings in VLC |
| C | Add or change the comment of one selected recording |
| Shift + C | Add or change the comment of the first recording and overwrite the comments of all recordings under the cursor with this one |
| D | Select all recordings under the cursor for drop / Apply the D attribute to the selected recordings |
| Shift + D | Remove the D attribute from the selected recordings |
| G | Mark recording as good / Apply the G attribute to the selected recordings |
| Shift + G | Remove the G attribute from the selected recordings |
| M | Mark recording as mastered / Apply the M attribute to the selected recordings |
| Shift + M | Remove the M attribute from the selected recordings |
If a recording is marked as mastered, it cannot be dropped and vice versa.
If you press the Drop button, the file paths of all files belonging
to all recordings marked with the D attribute are written into the file
dropped in the directory of this program.
You can review the files again and then delete them manually or using:
xargs -d '\n' -n 1 rm -vf < droppedDeletion is permanent! So be careful what you delete!
If you restart the software without deleting/moving your dropped recordings,
they will reappear in the recording list, but without any previously set attributes
or comments, as any metadata will be purged from the local database when pressing Drop.
If you are not yet confident about deletion, you can move the files to another directory to circumvent this behavior:
mkdir -p DROPPED_RECORDINGS && xargs -d '\n' -n 1 mv -vt DROPPED_RECORDINGS < dropped./dvr_manager.py /mnt/hdd/dvr/movies /mnt/nas/recordings
Scanning directories... (This may take a while)
Successfully scanned 2 directories.
Processing recordings... (This may take a while)
Successfully processed 4821 recordings. (4723 in cache, 98 new)