[mythtv-users] Rename Recorded Files

[Brian Wood]

On Jul 8, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 07/08/2006 05:34 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 07/08/06 15:51, Brian Wood wrote:
>>>> On Jul 8, 2006, at 10:41 AM, Jeff Hardy wrote:
>>>>> I wrote a little perl script called mythfindfile to find and
>>>>> optionally
>>>>> rename files on the filesystem to a more human-readable format and
>>>>> update the DB accordingly.  It works for me.  If anyone is
>>>>> interested,
>>>>> it is available at http://fritz.potsdam.edu/projects/mythtvstuff.
>>>>> Comments are welcome.
>>>> Very nice. The search ability is both new and useful, at least  
>>>> to me.
>>> So, how about a ticket/patch posted to http://svn.mythtv.org/ to
>>> incorporate the search functionality into mythrename.pl.
>> Since mythrename.pl is in the "contrib" directory I would not think
>> that a ticket/patch would be appropriate, as it is not part of MythTV
>> proper, but I am certainly not authoritative on such matters.
>>
>
> I've done probably 5 or more tickets/patches for mythrename.pl (and  
> its
> predecessor mythlink.sh) and provided feedback on several patches from
> another user.  Chris has been very good at reviewing and committing  
> the
> patches, so it's definitely the right way to get the new functionality
> into the existing script.
>
>> Obviously if the original author (Chris Petersen) wanted to make
>> changes/updates to his work I'm sure it would be appreciated by all.
>
> Waiting for these changes to become a priority of Chris's isn't.   
> Chris
> has enough to do keeping up with MythWeb and the new Perl  
> bindings.  ;)


OK, so I'm wrong :-)

I would have thought that anything in "contrib" was not part of the  
MythTV project per se.

Given that it seems to be, I wonder if "contrib" is the proper place  
for it, but OTOH I can't think of any other place for such a thing.  
It's certainly where I look for such things.

In truth *all* of the code, docs, etc. is really *all* "contrib"uted  
by the devs I guess.