[mythtv-users] mythrename.pl kills myth2ipod?
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Mar 7 17:34:39 UTC 2007
On 03/07/2007 07:14 AM, come se fosse antani wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
>> On 03/07/2007 03:15 AM, Dmitry Shesterin aka dscheste wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to get myth2ipod working after recordings were renamed
>>> using mythrename.pl?
>>>
>>> I stumbled upon this problem when I realized that myth2ipod does not
>>> convert anything. When I looked into the code I realized that it
>>> reverse-parses the filenames and, logically, if the names were changed
>>> by mythrename.pl, parsing fails, the subsequent SQL query fails and
>>> the script just exits.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anybody have a workaround?
>>>
>> mythrename.pl --format '%c_%Y%m%d%H%i%s' --live
>>
>> And from then on use mythrename.pl's "--link" option to create links to
>> your files with pretty names. I have 5 different directories of links
>> in different formats giving me differently-sorted views. It's /much/
>> more powerful than renaming the actual files, and when I want a copy of
>> the file on a laptop or whatever, I can scp the link and it copies the
>> file using the link name. So, ugly filenames are only used by Myth and
>> I only use link names. Really, it makes me wonder why anyone would want
>> to rename the files...
>>
> Sorry Mike but:
> If i create the links with mythrename and then I delete some of the
> recordings using the frontend, the links are still there, right?
Until the next time you run mythrename.pl--which deletes all the links
below the destination directory before creating new links.
$ ls -al views/original_airdate/*.{mpg,nuv} | wc -l
200
$ ls -al recordings/*.{mpg,nuv} | wc -l
200
And I delete everything right after watching it... I run mythrename.pl
on a 30-minute cron job, so there is a small window in there where right
after I delete a show, the link still exists, but it's never been a
problem before.
Mike
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