[mythtv-users] an easier way to create "friendly" names for converted files

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Larry Roberts <mythtv at american-hero.com>wrote:

>  On 1/3/2013 8:58 AM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Larry Roberts <mythtv at american-hero.com>wrote:
>
>> On 1/3/2013 3:15 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/03/2013 02:06 AM, Bob Long wrote:
>>>
>>>> Larry Roberts wrote,
>>>>
>>>>  My end goal is to get a couple of daily recordings converted to a roku
>>>>> compatible format with friendly names for my wife to watch on the roku
>>>>> in our bedroom.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> Are you aware of http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>  Definitely aware of mythlink as I use it to to interface with airvideo.
>> It was a great find at the time and something my kids use every night. to
>> stream videos to the iPAD.
>>
>> Maybe its just my understanding of how the user job operates and stores
>> information but how do I tell mythlink to create links to those newly
>> converted .m4v files?  I didn't see a way to specify the directory the
>> files were in.  I believe it gets that info directly from the DB and from
>> what I can tell only did the original file.  I run mythlink every 30
>> minutes to update recording information and I cant find a link to the newly
>> created .m4v file.
>>
>>  I think we all missed the "convert" part of your original post.  What
> are you doing to create the .m4v files?  Since these are not referenced by
> mythlink I assume they also do not show up in Myth Frontend under Watch
> Recordings.  Is that correct?
>
>  Jeremy
>
>
>
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>  I have a user job that references my transcode script.  I'm passing the 2
> variables to the script (channel id and start time) which can then
> autobuild the file name since it also knows the directory my recordings are
> all stored in.
> my transcoding is working great and I end up with the transcoded file in
> my /tmp/ directory with the typical mythtv name 1006_blahblahblah.m4v.
> What I want and am trying to do is to move/rename the .m4v file and create
> a "family friendly" name in my directory store.
>
> my very ugly rename/move command that is part of the transcode script is
> below:
>
>
> mysql -uroot -ppasswordremoved mythconverg -B --exec "select
> basename,title,subtitle from recorded;" | grep ${CHANID}_${STARTTIME}  |
> sed 's/.mpg//'| sed 's/\t/ /g' | while read b NAME ;do mv
> {$TMPDIR}/${CHANID}_${STARTTIME}.m4v */roku/*"$NAME".m4v;done
>
> I woke up this morning to find my file transcoded but still sitting in the
> /tmp directory so something isn't working with my command above, althought
> I can run it manually and it works just fine (assuming I set the variables
> of course)  .
>
> Roku doesn't natively support uPNP.  Still looking at finding a solution
> for that as it may be easier to just point to mythtv as its already a uPNP
> server.
>

It apparently does support HLS though, why not try the new services api?
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