[mythtv-users] Mythlink Questions

[John Pilkington]

On 13/10/15 15:07, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 13/10/15 11:54, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 10/10/2015 04:27 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>> These just have a filename consisting of Channel ID plus date and
>>> time the recording started.
>>
>> because--regardless of the user's file system choice and system locale
>> settings (including character
>> set and encoding)--a file name with just numerals and a "simple"
>> extension (.mpg or .nuv, for
>> example) can be represented.  When we tried to allow the use of actual
>> titles and subtitles and such
>> in the file name, users ended up with broken recordings because some
>> of the characters were not
>> representable/usable with their file system/locale settings.
>>
>> Therefore, as Mike P said, if you want to take over management of the
>> file and file name, the best
>> (and only supported) solution is to move that file to Video Library
>> (Watch Videos), which is your
>> library of videos "worth keeping".
>>
> By the way, as a matter of database design, the filenames of recordings
> fail the rule which says not to put metadata in the filename. I know why
> you did it, so don't get upset.
>
> It would have been a *lot* simpler just to add an integer unique key to
> the recordings table and used that for the filename - perhaps with some
> simple prefix like 'R_' but a number will do. Doing that would have made
> the work of identifying a particular recording in the storage directory,
> for diagnostic purposes, /so/ much easier.
>
> The rest of the information is in the database anyway should it be
> required.
>

Perhaps this ?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/582382?search_string=v0.28-pre-2566-gb220116;#582382