[mythtv-users] Will this ever work in MythTV?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/11/2006 02:33 PM, Chris Petersen wrote:
>> Instead of mythname.pl, use mythlink.sh to create links with real 
>> program names.  You'll have to edit the script a bit to make it work 
>> (there was a much easier to configure version in SVN between 0.18 and 
>> 0.19, but once Chris made mythlink.pl (which became mythrename.pl), 
>> there was no need for mythlink.sh).  If you want the easy to configure 
>> one (it should work with 0.18), you can get it from 
>> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/contrib/mythlink.sh?rev=7024&format=raw
>>     
> fyi, mythrename will work with .18, but only with the --link option. 
> You still only get symlinks, but you can choose the name formatting 
> however you want, separate into subdirs, etc.
>   
Won't it fail since we're using basename to get the existing recording 
filename?  If using "--link", lines 283, 380, 403--not to mention 282, 
which says:

        die "This script requires mythtv >= 0.19\n" unless 
($info{'basename'});

;)

Mike