On za, 2005-02-05 at 07:03 -0800, Darren Hart wrote: > 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. >
I'm afraid you could have saved yourself some time. A script that does this is already in the contrib folder : http://cvs.mythtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mythtv/contrib/mythlink.sh?rev=1.2&view=log Steven
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