[mythtv-users] Filenames of recordings: access from the desktop
John Pilkington
johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 11:19:33 UTC 2022
On 12/01/2022 11:09, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 11/01/2022 21:57, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 11/01/2022 17:16, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 01/09/2022 11:25 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> Before I try some other kludge, is there an easy way of displaying
>>>> and 'copying' the full filename from a windowed Myth display? Or
>>>> some other approach? I guess that adding it to the 'Watch
>>>> Recordings' screen itself isn't going to improve the family
>>>> experience...
>>>>
>>>> FWIW the 'M > Playback > Playback Data' popup shows the full filename.
>>>
>>> You can use mythlink.pl (https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl )
>>> to create links with useful/recognizable/customized-for-your-scripts
>>> names, then use those useful names to get the full path to the actual
>>> recording file with:
>>>
>>> readlink <link_name>
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>> Yes, thanks Mike. Having recently recommended mythlink and cp -L
>> here I should have made that connection. In GUI mode I would probably
>> read the link destination from the file manager screen, or copy from
>> its 'Properties' popup, but mythlink + readlink looks as if it could
>> be more scriptable. I'll look at the mythlink wiki again. :-)
>>
>
>
> There seems to be no need to do any new scripting. In a Plasma (KDE)
> desktop, this works:
>
> Run mythlink.pl to put links into a folder.
>
> Open that folder with a file manager; I still use konqueror. Right-click
> on the recording to be processed and select 'Properties'. Right click on
> the contents of the 'Points To:' box, Select All, and Copy.
>
> In a konsole (terminal) tab, recall (Ctrl/R or UpArrow) a command line
> similar to the one you want. Erase the old file details and Paste in
> the ones from the link.
>
> Run the new command.
>
That works, but needs mouse gymnastics. Here's an alternative.
For some time I have used a lightly customised MythCenter-wide theme,
not always kept fully compatible with the current version. Now master
has a bigger update and I had another look.
I think I can get what I want if I make a simple change in
recordings-ui.xml, replacing
{{{
<template>%startdate%%| startyear%, %starttime% </template>
by
<template>%recstartdate%%| startyear%, %recstarttime% - %recendtime%
%recordedid% </template>
}}}
although the date/year sequence has often given me slightly strange
results that probably depend on my specified short-date format.
It's easy to tweak this and I will experiment some more, but I wonder if
it, or at least the inclusion of the RecordedId, might be considered as
an official change?
> > John P
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