[mythtv-users] Meaningful file names

[Tom Lichti]

Lasse Knudsen wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> Im just accessing my recordings with mythtv via a file share from an 
> xbox, so i was wondering if there is a possibility to have mythtv save 
> the files with a more meaningful name? alternatively transcode to 
> divx/xvid with a human readable name and then delete the old.
>  
> I was looking for something like the way gbpvr handles the files, it 
> makes a folder for every show and then dumps all the corrosponding 
> files in that one. Is there a premade script that those this?
>  
> kind regards
>  
> Lasse
For current versions of Myth  (post .19) there is a script called 
mythrename.pl that will do what you want. I have also seen various 
versions called mythlink.sh and pretty.

Tom