[mythtv-users] Mythlink Questions

[Mike Perkins]

On 13/10/15 15:38, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 13/10/15 15:07, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 13/10/15 11:54, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2015 04:27 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>>> These just have a filename consisting of Channel ID plus date and
>>>> time the recording started.
>>>
>>> because--regardless of the user's file system choice and system locale
>>> settings (including character
>>> set and encoding)--a file name with just numerals and a "simple"
>>> extension (.mpg or .nuv, for
>>> example) can be represented.  When we tried to allow the use of actual
>>> titles and subtitles and such
>>> in the file name, users ended up with broken recordings because some
>>> of the characters were not
>>> representable/usable with their file system/locale settings.
>>>
>>> Therefore, as Mike P said, if you want to take over management of the
>>> file and file name, the best
>>> (and only supported) solution is to move that file to Video Library
>>> (Watch Videos), which is your
>>> library of videos "worth keeping".
>>>
>> By the way, as a matter of database design, the filenames of recordings
>> fail the rule which says not to put metadata in the filename. I know why
>> you did it, so don't get upset.
>>
>> It would have been a *lot* simpler just to add an integer unique key to
>> the recordings table and used that for the filename - perhaps with some
>> simple prefix like 'R_' but a number will do. Doing that would have made
>> the work of identifying a particular recording in the storage directory,
>> for diagnostic purposes, /so/ much easier.
>>
>> The rest of the information is in the database anyway should it be
>> required.
>>
>
> Perhaps this ?
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/582382?search_string=v0.28-pre-2566-gb220116;#582382
>
Looks good. What do you do about existing files? Leave them or rename?

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Mike Perkins