[mythtv-users] Fast Question about Mythrename.pl

[Douglas Wagner]

On 5/21/07, Douglas Wagner <douglasw0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yea, and I use that, but due to re-orging everything massively I now have
> about 60 - 80 unliked files in my /mnt/video1 that I need to get links back
> to in my /video directory so they're again watchable through myth.  I wasn't
> sure if there was a fast way (I did it once with a shell for loop) to just
> create the links.
>
> --Doug
>
> On 5/21/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> > On 05/21/2007 12:22 PM, Douglas Wagner wrote:
> > >      Got a frontend/backend on one system, have a NAS that is serving
> > > as active storage on another system across a 100bt wired link.
> > >
> > > Recordings go to my local /video directory and will then be moved
> > > across the wire (via myth_archive_job.pl) to one of the two nas
> > > recording areas (Video 1 or Video 2).  Obviously this creates sim
> > > links in the local /video directory.  MythTV is setup to "follow sim
> > > links" upon delete so all is good there.
> > >
> > > My question surrounds mythrename.pl.  If I were to want to run this
> > > guy to re-name shows, will he work "through sim links" or would I have
> >
> > > to run this guy on the NAS box and then some way re-name the created
> > > sim links?
> >
> > I /highly/ recommend you never rename MythTV recording files.  Instead,
> > use "mythrename.pl --link" to create "pretty" symlinks to the recording
> > files (or recording links).
> >
> > > Maybe the better question is: considering the setup i've explained
> > > above, what's the best way to re-name the 1092_20070516120000.mpg
> > > files that I get to something slightly more meaningful so that I can
> > > access the show in the local /video directory by a name that is
> > > comprehensible (yet still play these things through myth).  I really
> > > don't care what the file name on the NAS is, so long as MythTV can get
> >
> > > rid of it upon delete.  If the answer is to have a sim link in /video
> > > of a valid name pointing to a 1092.....file on the nas, i'm good with
> > > this so long as Myth can properly delete.
> >
> > Put the links in a separate directory so you don't have all the other
> > "junk" in there (i.e. PNG thumbnail images, ugly-named recordings,
> > etc.).  Also, "mythrename --link" will delete /all/ symlinks under the
> > provided link directory (so it would delete the ugly-Myth-named links as
> >
> > well as the pretty mythrename links, leaving orphaned recordings).
> >
> > And, that's what deletes the old symlinks--mythrename.pl, not Myth.  So,
> > for example, I run mythrename.pl --link on a cron job at 1 and 31 past
> > the hour (nearly all shows I record start on the half hour).  Sure, I
> > may have a recording or two for which I don't have a link or for which I
> > have a link right after I delete the recording--for up to half an
> > hour--but if I really need to, I can always run "mythrename.pl --link"
> > myself.
> >
> > In fact, though, I never run mythrename.pl directly.  I have a little
> > "wrapper" script that creates various "views" using different formats
> > for the names (attached).  That means that each view--when sorted
> > alphabetically (or ASCII-betically, as the case may be)--gives me
> > differently-sorted recordings lists.  The list sorted by original
> > airdate lets me know what order to watch the episodes.  The list sorted
> > by recording starttime lets me easily find the newest recordings. ...
> >
> > > Also as another side item (unrelated) anyone have a fast for loop
> > > command to take all the *.mpg files in /mnt/video1 and link them to
> > > /video?  I've done this before but I forget the command I used.
> >
> > Have you looked at myth_archive_job.pl (which has nothing to do with
> > MythArchive, BTW)?
> >
> > Mike
> >
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>
So maybe what i'm reading here is that the best way to handle this is as
follows:

Mythtv records shows to /video.
Some job moves the shows from /video to /mnt/video1
every half hour mythrename --link runs to re-link all the files in
/mnt/video1 and /mnt/video2 back to /video

Now, is there an option on mythrename --link to allow it to link multiple
directories of files to one source dir? (i.e. /mnt/video1 and /mnt/video2 to
/video)

Thanks for the info on this.

--Doug
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