[mythtv-users] UPDATED: pdatranscode

[Peter Watkins]

Jeff volckaert wrote:

>> If I had more time, I'd like to make the script more generic and with more
>> command line options, e.g.
>>
>> pdatranscode --video-dir /data/recordings --pda-dir /data/pda \
>>   --recording-file 1001_20061122120000.mpg --recording-title "%TITLE%" \
>>   --recording-subtitle "%SUBTITLE%" --output-filename "{TITLE}-{SUBTITLE}.avi"

> I tried that originally with naming, but quickly saw that allot of
> shows had no subtitle and would overwrite the previous.  I didn't want

Hmm, very good point! Yes, I've seen that with re-runs especially.

> to add starttime since then the name would be really long (i.e.
> MythBusters-ShatteringSubwooferandRoughRoadDriving-20061120000000.avi).

With my hacked version, I removed the year and second fields from the
timestamp, so my names now look like MythBusters-11200000.avi

My next step would be to add subtitle (using 'cut' to keep it from being
too long) and massage the date so it would look like
  MythBusters-ShatteringSubwoofera-11-20-0000.avi

In my generic script idea, there would be {} keywords for YEAR, MONTH,
HOUR, etc. based on starttime, and the script would allow for usage like
  "{TITLE-20}-{SUBTITLE-20}-{MONTH}-{DAY}-{HOUR}{MIN}.avi"
so users could decide how long any given field could be.

But the chances of my doing that are slim... :-)

-Peter

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