<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 28, 2006, at 9:16 PM, Steven C. Liu wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BIG>Thanks, Brian.<BR> <BR> Is there a way to get MythTV to do that automatically, or must I use something like cron?<BR></BIG><BLOCKQUOTE cite="mid8FFE792A-45E4-4738-BC95-A9A3A3442D10@beww.org" type="cite"><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Mar 28, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Steven C. Liu wrote:</DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BIG><FONT size="+1"><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Hi folks,<BR> <BR> How do I tell MythTV to change the name of the saved shows to something more "human-readable"? The directory that I save my movies into are shared via samba, and I like to watch my programs on a different box. Right now, it is some numeric string, but I would like the files to be named something with the title. How do I do that?<BR> </FONT></FONT></BIG></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> </DIV> <DIV>Try "mythrename.pl" in the contrib directory of the source tarball.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You might be able to do it as a "user job", but I'm not sure how you would pass the intended "new name" to it. A cron job might be more flexible.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>BTW - try and avoid top-posting, it makes it hard for anyone reading this in the archives later on to follow the thread.</DIV></BODY></HTML>