[mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.

[Mike Perkins]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 
> You all never see channel IDs and that's not a problem.  Why?  Because 
> the channel IDs are irrelevant because we make available the important 
> information you /do/ need (channel number, callsign, description, etc.).
> 
I beg to differ. Channel IDs form the first four (or more) characters of the 
file names that Myth uses when it stores media files on disk.

Sometimes it is /essential/ to know what these are in order to debug a borked 
recording. Ex: knowing a faulty Anime broadcast on Film4 doesn't help me find it 
in order to run diagnostic tools on the file. Knowing that Film4=1015 helps 
greatly in locating it on disk. And no, running mythrename.pl isn't always a 
suitable tool for this job.

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Mike Perkins