[mythtv-users] Rename

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Wed Dec 31 17:29:16 UTC 2014


On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 22:51:07 +0100, you wrote:

>Hoi John,
>
>Saturday, December 27, 2014, 10:23:24 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On 27/12/14 20:04, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
>>> Hoi Hika, the ownership remains mythtv: mythtv and the permissions look
>>> like the other recordings as mentioned above only the
>>> "201412182200000.mpg" is now white while other file numbers present
>>> pink. I'm guessing this color difference makes it visible or not to myth
>>> somehow?
>
>> That filename doesn't look like the ones that I see, chanid_starttime.mpg
>
>> eg
>
>> 1009_20141227185800.mpg
>
>> Hika says that if the .mpg part is corrupted the colour in the ls 
>> display will change, and also myth wont see it; but if the 
>> chanid_starttime is corrupted myth won't see it anyway.
>
>> John
>
>Yes John you're right. I didn't look at the name, only at his
>mentioning of color. The naming should be:
><chanid>_<starttime>.mpg (or .nuv if it was transcoded by mythtv)
>starttime consists of yyyymmddhhmmssSS (the last part being hundredst
>of seconds normally being 00)

Most people naturally assume that the last two digits are hundredths
of a second, but I ran across an official explanation somewhere and in
fact the last two digits are a serial number which may be incremented
if necessary (but is normally 00).


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