[mythtv-users] Can't get any output from mythrename.pl

Matt a mythtv user mythtv-users at mattrude.com
Tue Apr 18 03:28:23 UTC 2006


Phill Edwards wrote:
> I'm running 0.19 from ATrpms and I've just found mythrename.pl. When I
> run it I get no output to the screen or any links created in
> /video/show_names/. This is even if I run it with the --verbose
> option.
>
> I put a print statement in and so I know the code is reaching here:
> # Create symlinks for the files on this machine
>     while (my $ref = $sh->fetchrow_hashref()) {
>
> but after that who knows?
>
> Is there some sort of configuration that has to be done to this script
> to make it work? I got the impression it would work out of the box as
> it looks at mysql.txt.
>
> Perhaps I don't have some packages that are required:
> # Includes
>     use DBI;
>     use Getopt::Long;
>     use File::Path;
>     use File::Basename;
>     use File::Find;
>
> but surely it would give an error message then.
>
> The version info at the top of the file says:
> # $Date: 2006-02-06 22:05:03 -0500 (Mon, 06 Feb 2006) $
> # $Revision: 8888 $
> # $Author: xris $
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how to make this work?
>
> Regards,
> Phill
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Something like this will link all the shows to a diff dir.
/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.19/contrib/mythrename.pl --link 
/mythtv/DVDBurn/Shows/


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