[mythtv-users] Generating better recording filenames

Andrew Gallatin gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Mon Apr 21 14:01:53 UTC 2008


Michael T. Dean [mtdean at thirdcontact.com] wrote:
> On 04/20/2008 01:26 PM, daniel åkerud wrote:
> > I wanted to share my recording with other units on the network, and 
> > since the upnp support has been very shaky for me I had to come up 
> > with another solution. What I do now is have a script run that gets 
> > all the recordings from the database and generates links with good 
> > names that point to the recordings.
> 
> Sounds like you recreated mythrename.pl --link.

Does anybody know why the MythTV recording filenames have to be so
darned cryptic?  Other systems have no problems using meaningful
filenames. For example, SageTV recorded last week's My Name is Earl
as:

/var/media/tv/MyNameIsEarl-NoHeadsandaDuffelBag-100810-0.mpg

They do something like

filename=$series_name - $episode_name - $databaseid - $segment.mpg

That way, it is easy to look up in the database, and it is
also easy to identify by browsing the filesystem.

This is one area where MythTV could be a little more user friendly...

Drew


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