[mythtv-users] UPDATED: pdatranscode

[Peter Watkins]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 01:37:58PM -0500, Jeff volckaert wrote:
> > Is it by any chance possible that if i select multiple shows, with the same
> > show name (the IT Crowd)
> > and same startingtime , only different dates, it overwrites the 1st
> > transcoded file with the second and so on?
> No, because the full starttime (year month day time) is used.  Here's
> a copy of a few filenames from my pda directory:
> 
> StarTrekTheNextGeneration-20061115160000.avi
> StarTrekTheNextGeneration-20061115210000.avi

That said, the script is fairly short, simple, and easy to read/modify,
so you should have no trouble making it only base filenames on program
titles if that's what you want.

If I had more time, I'd like to make the script more generic and with more
command line options, e.g.

pdatranscode --video-dir /data/recordings --pda-dir /data/pda \
  --recording-file 1001_20061122120000.mpg --recording-title "%TITLE%" \
  --recording-subtitle "%SUBTITLE%" --output-filename "{TITLE}-{SUBTITLE}.avi"

but for now I've just hacked the script to meet my current prefernces.

Thanks, Jeff!

-Peter