<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">On 9/24/2012 17:47, Jeremy Jones wrote: </span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#660066" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">> <br>
> <br>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Richard Morton <br>> <richard.e.morton [at] gmail <mailto:<a href="mailto:richard.e.morton">richard.e.morton</a> [at] gmail>> wrote: <br>> <br>> Hi, <br>
> <br>> I think the OP is asking for season and episode number to be added <br>> to the filename pattern with mythlink rather than being added to <br>> meta-data. i.e. using the meta-data to construct the filename and <br>
> make the information browsable/sortable in non-myth applications. <br>> <br>> R <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> I wasn't aware mythTV wrote metadata to recordings. If it doesn't, and <br>> this metadata does exist, then wouldn't it be simpler to modify the <br>
> program that is creating the metadata to make the symbolic links? <br></font><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The metadata already exists in the database. Mythlink accesses that </span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">metadata from the database, and uses it in combination with a formatting </span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">string to produce a filename to symlink back to the recording. Something </span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">like... </span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">--link '/share/recordings (by date)' --format '%Y-%m-%d/%T - %S' </span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">would produce a symlink such as... </span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">/share/recordings (by date)/2012-09-18/Go On - There's No "Ryan" in Team.mpg </span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The OP is looking for someone to add additional formatting tags that </span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">would be replaced by the season and episode numbers </span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Raymond is correct. I have a samsung smart tv and it has an app for Plex right on the TV. Thus no requirement to run a frontend anymore. I am a longtime mythtv user and I do understand the tradeoffs you make when you dont run native mythtvfrontend but its just too compelling not to have to have another box attached to the tv. If someone wrote a mythtv frontend for Samsung (Android) I would happily use Mythtv frontend app but sadly none exists. So my goal is to have Plex client be able to better handle mythtv backend recordings. There is a program called Mythical Librarian (hacked together script) that does this but its way overly complex. I think I read a post where someone was using Mythical Librarian (might even be your Raymond) to do this very thing. </div>
<div><br></div><div>You can use <a href="http://mythlink.pl">mythlink.pl</a> to do this but as Raymond shows its not optimal as it leaves out the Season and Episode numbers. If the developer ( I believe its Chris Peterson ) could add those additional tags that would be super. </div>
<div><br>What would be even better if somehow you could configure myth in storage groups to store the recordings in the naming convention you as a user would like. Than I could have the metadata lookup done in Myth and than just point Plex at my NAS and everything would work nicely together. I realize that none of the developers probably use a setup like this so there is little interest in developing this but I am sure I am not the only user who is interested in something like this. </div>
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