[mythtv-users] Filenames of recordings: access from the desktop

[John Pilkington]

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