[mythtv-users] Can Myth auto-name MPG recordings with show names?

Scott Alfter mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org
Sun Sep 24 17:31:12 UTC 2006


Matt Emmott wrote:
> I'm running MythTV 0.20 with a PVR-150 card. All my recordings are put
> in the /video directory, which right now is full of .mpg files with
> filenames like 1004_20060923153001.mpg, etc. I can connect to the box
> over CIFS from my Windows box and view the mpg files as videos. My
> question is - Is there a way to make Myth rename these files so they
> are more descriptive, like with the show title in the filename or
> something?

MythWeb 0.20 does this on-the-fly...too bad Apache gets stuck right at the end
of sending a large file, but Konqueror keeps partial downloads and they've been
OK for my uses so far.

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