[mythtv] Formating of title for recordings
Kevin Kuphal
kuphal at dls.net
Tue Aug 8 20:12:20 UTC 2006
Tim Jordan wrote:
> Is there a reason that it is formatted in this way though? this kind
> of harks back to a day of a manual recorder, rather than the more
> modern myth that we are faced with now. Does the contrib script
> automatically rename the files, i.e. could it be run as a cron job
> renaming my files as i move along?
> As of you third comment that is where I start from but with the live
> tv recordings it is still annoying.
>
Simply, because titles may not be unique so channum+timestamp works fine
since generally speaking this is a behind the scenes thing that you
never see. The contrib script is there to provide the friendly names if
you need them. Just cron it.
Kevin
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