As staff, I want to rename episodes so that I can process them downstream

[jimdur8n]

Use regex, metadata.xml to determine facts about the video file.

There are at least 4 files per show: DAT, SRT, XML, TS, they will all have the same name and be created around the same time.

• The xml file has the key information to read.
• An Evening News show should be 30 minutes, typically 17:30:00 to 18:00:00.
• Sometimes a show is broken into two or more pieces. The xml file will say the start/stop times of each piece.
• Sometimes a second recording will be dumped into the bucket and it doesn't need to be kept.

The Weekend Challenge: There are lots of moving and shifting of show times on the weekends. Do we resort to a manual clipping of a 1-2 hour window?

• The final naming convention: YYYYMMDD[Network].extension This is required for the mp4-vulstream copy to play.

Key steps

• Create a dynamoDB to hold data about each show.
• Create chron job to run late in the night to start the task.
• Check that all four parts of the recording are there.
• Read data from xml can determine date, network, file extension
• Compare read data to a database of existing records.
• Determine if the recording is:
  A) New and a complete show
  B) New and part of an incomplete show
  C) A duplicate of a complete show

If Then

If A, Then the show is renamed 'YYYYMMDD[Network].extension' and stored appropriately.
If B, Then the show segment is renamed YYYMMDDNET_HHMM-HHMM.ext, where HHMM = start/stop times.
If C, Then the show is moved to recycling.

Error Handling

• Any file that does not have all four parts should be moved to recycling.
• For weekdays, we'd prefer to keep the show that has the closet start/stop time to the episode. For example if version A is 1 hour, 17:00 to 18:00 and version B is 17:30 to 18:00, we want version B.
• We need a mechanism for manually feeding the lambda, to replace an exisitng video with another. A field in the xml might work.

Reporting

• report activity to logging system, including number of partial recordings, and missing shows.