[mythtv-users] Rename Recorded Files

[Brian Wood]

On Jul 8, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 07/08/06 15:51, Brian Wood wrote:
>
>> On Jul 8, 2006, at 10:41 AM, Jeff Hardy wrote:
>>
>>> I wrote a little perl script called mythfindfile to find and
>>> optionally
>>> rename files on the filesystem to a more human-readable format and
>>> update the DB accordingly.  It works for me.  If anyone is  
>>> interested,
>>> it is available at http://fritz.potsdam.edu/projects/mythtvstuff.
>>> Comments are welcome.
>>>
>>>
>> Very nice. The search ability is both new and useful, at least to me.
>>
>
> So, how about a ticket/patch posted to http://svn.mythtv.org/ to
> incorporate the search functionality into mythrename.pl.


Since mythrename.pl is in the "contrib" directory I would not think  
that a ticket/patch would be appropriate, as it is not part of MythTV  
proper, but I am certainly not authoritative on such matters.

Obviously if the original author (Chris Petersen) wanted to make  
changes/updates to his work I'm sure it would be appreciated by all.  
Clearly as well, since the script specifically indicates GPL  
licensing, we are all free to modify it, as long as we follow the  
normal GPL rules.

Jeff's script might want to go into "contrib" as well, but I have no  
idea what criteria are used to determine what goes in there.

I will say that despite the fact that the MythTV devs have properly  
disclaimed responsibility for the content of "contrib", everything in  
there seems to be functional and "safe", so whatever the selection  
criteria are, they seem to be working well.