[mythtv-users] myth video file naming issues

Greg greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
Tue Mar 22 22:20:10 UTC 2011


On 03/22/2011 03:07 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Dan Armbrust
> <daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> MythVideo will parse the title, subtitle, season, and episode from a
>>> filename once, and only once.  Once it is in the database, there is no
>>> way to manually trigger a reprocessing.  Similarly, once it is in the
>>> database, it is ID'd with a hash value, so if the file is moved, the
>>> existing data is matched up and pointed at the new file.  The only way
>>> to start completely fresh is the way already mentioned.  Move your
>>> content out of a folder used by MythVideo, scan, move it back in, and
>>> rescan.
>>
>> This works, by the way.  Still haven't had time to ponder whether I
>> want to fight with regular expressions, or just rename my files to
>> deal with the bracket issues.  One of these days...
> thunar has an excellent bulk renamer.
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
pyRenamer is pretty simple to use also...


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list