[mythtv-users] an easier way to create "friendly" names for converted files

[Larry Roberts]

On 1/3/2013 8:58 AM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Larry Roberts 
> <mythtv at american-hero.com <mailto:mythtv at american-hero.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 1/3/2013 3:15 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>         On 01/03/2013 02:06 AM, Bob Long wrote:
>
>             Larry Roberts wrote,
>
>                 My end goal is to get a couple of daily recordings
>                 converted to a roku
>                 compatible format with friendly names for my wife to
>                 watch on the roku
>                 in our bedroom.
>
>
>             [snip]
>
>             Are you aware of http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl ?
>
>
>         [snip]
>
>     Definitely aware of mythlink as I use it to to interface with
>     airvideo. It was a great find at the time and something my kids
>     use every night. to stream videos to the iPAD.
>
>     Maybe its just my understanding of how the user job operates and
>     stores information but how do I tell mythlink to create links to
>     those newly converted .m4v files?  I didn't see a way to specify
>     the directory the files were in.  I believe it gets that info
>     directly from the DB and from what I can tell only did the
>     original file.  I run mythlink every 30 minutes to update
>     recording information and I cant find a link to the newly created
>     .m4v file.
>
> I think we all missed the "convert" part of your original post.  What 
> are you doing to create the .m4v files?  Since these are not 
> referenced by mythlink I assume they also do not show up in Myth 
> Frontend under Watch Recordings.  Is that correct?
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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I have a user job that references my transcode script.  I'm passing the 
2 variables to the script (channel id and start time) which can then 
autobuild the file name since it also knows the directory my recordings 
are all stored in.
my transcoding is working great and I end up with the transcoded file in 
my /tmp/ directory with the typical mythtv name 1006_blahblahblah.m4v.  
What I want and am trying to do is to move/rename the .m4v file and 
create a "family friendly" name in my directory store.

my very ugly rename/move command that is part of the transcode script is 
below:

mysql -uroot -ppasswordremoved mythconverg -B --exec "select 
basename,title,subtitle from recorded;" | grep ${CHANID}_${STARTTIME}  | 
sed 's/.mpg//'| sed 's/\t/ /g' | while read b NAME ;do mv 
{$TMPDIR}/${CHANID}_${STARTTIME}.m4v /roku/"$NAME".m4v;done

I woke up this morning to find my file transcoded but still sitting in 
the /tmp directory so something isn't working with my command above, 
althought I can run it manually and it works just fine (assuming I set 
the variables of course)  .

Roku doesn't natively support uPNP.  Still looking at finding a solution 
for that as it may be easier to just point to mythtv as its already a 
uPNP server.

I'm off to work now but will try to check in later.  Im officially 
obsessed with getting this working now...

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