[mythtv-users] mythrename.pl kills myth2ipod?
Dmitry Shesterin
dscheste at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 03:44:11 UTC 2007
Dear Michael,
Thanks, it definitely helps.
Cheers,
Dmitry
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On Mar 7, 2007, at 10:16 AM, come se fosse antani wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 03/07/2007 07:14 AM, come se fosse antani wrote:
>>> On 3/7/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/07/2007 03:15 AM, Dmitry Shesterin aka dscheste wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to get myth2ipod working after recordings were
>>>>> renamed
>>>>> using mythrename.pl?
>>>>>
>>>>> I stumbled upon this problem when I realized that myth2ipod
>>>>> does not
>>>>> convert anything. When I looked into the code I realized that it
>>>>> reverse-parses the filenames and, logically, if the names were
>>>>> changed
>>>>> by mythrename.pl, parsing fails, the subsequent SQL query fails
>>>>> and
>>>>> the script just exits.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody have a workaround?
>>>>>
>>>> mythrename.pl --format '%c_%Y%m%d%H%i%s' --live
>>>>
>>>> And from then on use mythrename.pl's "--link" option to create
>>>> links to
>>>> your files with pretty names. I have 5 different directories of
>>>> links
>>>> in different formats giving me differently-sorted views. It's /
>>>> much/
>>>> more powerful than renaming the actual files, and when I want a
>>>> copy of
>>>> the file on a laptop or whatever, I can scp the link and it
>>>> copies the
>>>> file using the link name. So, ugly filenames are only used by
>>>> Myth and
>>>> I only use link names. Really, it makes me wonder why anyone
>>>> would want
>>>> to rename the files...
>>>>
>>> Sorry Mike but:
>>> If i create the links with mythrename and then I delete some of the
>>> recordings using the frontend, the links are still there, right?
>>
>> Until the next time you run mythrename.pl--which deletes all the
>> links
>> below the destination directory before creating new links.
>>
>> $ ls -al views/original_airdate/*.{mpg,nuv} | wc -l
>> 200
>> $ ls -al recordings/*.{mpg,nuv} | wc -l
>> 200
>>
>> And I delete everything right after watching it... I run
>> mythrename.pl
>> on a 30-minute cron job, so there is a small window in there where
>> right
>> after I delete a show, the link still exists, but it's never been a
>> problem before.
>>
>
> thanks!
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