[mythtv-users] changing filenames for saved movies

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Mar 29 04:59:23 UTC 2006


On Mar 28, 2006, at 9:16 PM, Steven C. Liu wrote:

> Thanks, Brian.
>
> Is there a way to get MythTV to do that automatically, or must I  
> use something like cron?
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Steven C. Liu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> Try "mythrename.pl" in the contrib directory of the source tarball.


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.

BTW - try and avoid top-posting, it makes it hard for anyone reading  
this in the archives later on to follow the thread.
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