[mythtv-commits] Ticket #2754: Colon in subtitle confuses mythfrontend, MythWeb

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#2754: Colon in subtitle confuses mythfrontend, MythWeb
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 Reporter:  ylee at pobox.com  |       Owner:  ijr    
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  minor           |   Milestone:  unknown
Component:  mythtv          |     Version:  0.20   
 Severity:  medium          |  
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 I formerly ran the following script every hour in my crontab to gain
 human-readable filenames:

 perl /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.20/contrib/mythrename.pl --format "\%T \%-
 \%Y-\%m-\%d, \%g-\%i \%A, ch\%c %- %S" --replacement -

 This caused problems with four recordings. The one thing they have in
 common is that they all have a colon in their subtitles:

 Rick Steves' Europe
 Highlights of Paris: Eiffel and Monet to Crème Brulée

 Great Museums: Year of the Museum Specials
 Boston Children's Museum: Mind Over Matter

 Great Museums: Year of the Museum Specials
 National Baseball Hall of Fame: Home Base

 Great Museums: Year of the Museum Specials
 Riches, Rivals and Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America

 Neither mythfrontend nor MythWeb was able to find the recordings after the
 renamings, even though the file names matched what MythWeb would tell me
 it couldn't find when I clicked on one of these recordings.

 When I altered the crontab entry to read

 perl /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.20/contrib/mythrename.pl --format "\%T \%-
 \%Y-\%m-\%d, \%g-\%i \%A, ch\%c %- %S" --replacement -

 --in other words, no longer include subtitles in the human-readable
 filenames--mythfrontend was able to see and play the newly-renamed
 recordings (also, of course, showing that mythbackend never lost track of
 the files, as the script was able to work through it to rename them
 again). Also note that this issue has nothing to do with having a colon or
 other punctuation in recordings' titles; I've watched plenty of other
 episodes of Rick Steves' Europe, for example.

 This issue existed at least as far back as 0.19 and still exists in
 0.20-fixes.

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