[mythtv-users] mythrename.pl and transcoding

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Apr 18 22:37:07 UTC 2007


On Apr 18, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Lan Barnes wrote:

> I started running mythrename.pl every night to make it easier to  
> see my
> files in the CLI. Now I find out that mythtranscode needs elements  
> of the
> default file name (or I need to be able to find them out) to work,  
> notably
> recording time and channel ID.
>
> OK, I can see two fixes (three if you count undoing mythrename.pl, but
> that doesn't help the one old program I really want to record):
>
> 1. a way to reverse mythrename.pl and name them back
>
> or
>
> 2. a way to query the data base by the new name to get the required  
> data.
>
> Anybody have the way out?

Or you could use the --link option to make symlinks with pretty names  
instead of actually changing the names on disk.


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