[mythtv-users] Script to create human readable symlinks

[Darren Hart]

I spent a couple hours writing a script to create human readable symlinks to the mythtv named recordings. I find this useful when creating DVDs of shows, or just looking at the files from something other than MythTV. Right now it isn't at all polished but it does work. The paths are fixed (but easy to change at the top of the file) to /mnt/mythtv/recordings and /mnt/mythtv/links. I am still running 0.15, so I', not sure if the relevant parts of the db schema have changed or not.

It creates links of the form (in decreasing order of preference):

title - preference_seq.mpeg
title - description(0-15)_seq.mpeg
title - starttime_seq.mpeg
original file name

where seq is a sequence number in case the same name comes up twice. I use a PVR-250 so it calls them all mpegs.

I thought I'd post it in case anyone else might find it useful. Have I mentioned that I hate perl? If not, let me get that out of the way: I hate perl. :-) If there are some perl gurus on the list that would like to point out all the things I did wrong or in an amateur fashion, please do so - I wouldn't mind being a better perl programmer - even if I do hate it. If you do use it and improve upon it, please post it back to me and or the list so we can benefit from your improvements as well.

--Darren

link_recordings.pl
Description: Perl program

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