[mythtv-users] mythvideo: Problems with filenames including square brackets [] --retransmission--
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Nov 13 16:25:28 UTC 2006
On 11/13/2006 05:31 AM, Steven McClintoc wrote:
> A few days ago I updated my mythtv (KnopMyth to be precise). When I open
> mythvideo now I find the videos "unsorted" in the list view.
>
> Well, actually they're not unsorted. They are just not sorted the way
> I'd expect them to be. I've quite a lot of series I recorded from TV and
> I got used to the following syntax for naming them:
>
> <SERIES_NAME> - [<Season>x<Episode>] - <Name of Episode>.avi
>
>
> For some reason everything in between the square brackets is removed.
> Google advised me that this behaviour was intentional in order to be
> able to cut out comments in filenames. Despite the fact that this
> doesn't make much sense to me --- I had the same trouble with an earlier
> release of mythtv (I believe it was 0.19, but I'm not sure).
> But somehow I managed it to disable this
> "filter-out-comments-in-square-bracket" feature in the older release in
> order to get the files displayed and sorted the way I prefer.
>
> Does anyone know exactly how to disable this or if this isn't possible
> anymore in the recent releases?
You can always re-title the videos in MythVideo's database. Note that
the "title" and the "filename" are distinct. The "title" is an
auto-generated name that's created by parsing out "comments" (like
"[CD1]" or "[CD2]" from the filename and used /only/ for display in the
UI. If the auto-generated title isn't what you want, change it.
The preferred approach is through the UI in the Video Manager. If you
have a lot of videos, this may not be ideal. And, not that I'm
recommending editing the database directly, you could always do:
UPDATE videometadata SET title = SUBSTRING_INDEX(filename, '/', -1);
Mike
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