[mythtv-users] Rename Recorded Files

[Jeff Hardy]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 10:46 -0600, 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.
> 
> How is this different from mythrename.pl, included in "contrib" for  
> some time.

Well, apparently the old version of mythrename I had when i looked into
this months ago, didn't actually rename files.  It seemed geared toward
stripping out unwanted strings from the title and subtitle in the
database.  Unless I am completely clueless that is, which is entirely
possible.

> 
> Any additional features/advantages ?

Just the searching.

> 
> How does it handle links to an archive directory ?

It doesn't. :)