[mythtv-users] Two questions/comments on the consequences of human-readable filenames

Nate Crosno nate at crosno.net
Fri Feb 2 17:04:48 UTC 2007


Yeechang Lee wrote:
> For months, I've been using contrib/mythrename.pl to automatically
> rename MythTV's inscrutable default recording filenames to
> human-readable form
...
 > * Rebuilding seektables the way I describe at
 >  <URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/183846#183846>
 >  only works with recordings with default-style filenames

Any reason not to just use "--link" option so the back-end can happily go along 
with the standard naming format?  I suppose it's a little messier, but it seems 
to be a good compromise.


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