[mythtv-users] mythrename.pl and transcoding

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Apr 18 23:39:45 UTC 2007


On 04/18/2007 06:39 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?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/256917#256917

Mike


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