[mythtv-users] UPDATED: pdatranscode

Jeff volckaert jvolckaert at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 13:33:19 UTC 2006


> 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
I tried that originally with naming, but quickly saw that allot of
shows had no subtitle and would overwrite the previous.  I didn't want
to add starttime since then the name would be really long (i.e.
MythBusters-ShatteringSubwooferandRoughRoadDriving-20061120000000.avi).

Jeff


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