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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/03/2013 06:36 AM, Richard Morton wrote:
> for a start, the developers do not support direct access to the 
> database and the medium term plan is to restrict access by using an 
> embedded Mysql instance. Secondly if you did change the filename and 
> update the database you would need to be very careful to remove any 
> unsafe characters correctly.
>
> the upnp server and Mythlink were designed to remove the need to 
> update the database while still providing user-friendly access to the 
> files.
>

Exactly.  The file names used by MythTV for recordings are guaranteed to 
work on all systems, regardless of underlying file system (and its 
limitations--OK, with the possible exception of FAT 8.3 file systems), 
system locale, recording title/subtitle (and characters used in them), 
...  It is also guaranteed to work with all future versions of MythTV, 
regardless of how we change MythTV software or what future assumptions 
we make about recording files, etc.

And, as mentioned, above, user-managed (user-named, user-organized, 
user-provided) video is meant to be in Video Library.  Watch Recordings 
is for, er, recordings that were recorded by (this instance of) 
MythTV...  Video Library actually has code to find and work with videos, 
regardless of name, etc.

Besides, if you're going to the trouble of re-encoding and re-naming the 
recording, it seems that you feel it's a good recording and you plan to 
do more than watch and delete it--you probably plan to keep it.  So 
you're probably better off putting it in Video Library, whose interface 
is much better for large collections of video. See 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/534286#534286 .

That said, it sounds like what the OP really wants is mythrokuplayer.

Mike