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

[John Pilkington]

On 16/01/2022 11:19, John Pilkington wrote:

> 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.
> 

This works for me now. It's a little cramped but fits into the space 
allocated.

> {{{

        <textarea name="timedate" from="basetextarea">
             <area>295,444,415,30</area>
             <align>hcenter</align>
	
	    <!-- This is the current template from GitHub -->
	
	    <!-- <template>%startdate%%| startyear%, %starttime% </template> -->
	
	    <!-- Add actual end time to the display and change start time to be 
actual, not scheduled time.
	         Then squeeze in more, with chanid and recordedid shown too.
	         The formats are set in Appearance >  Localisation
	    -->
	
             <template>%recstartdate% %startyear% 
%recstarttime%-%recendtime% %chanid% %recordedid%</template>
         </textarea>

> }}}
> 
> 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