[mythtv-users] myth video file naming issues

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Dan Armbrust
<daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>> MythVideo will parse the title, subtitle, season, and episode from a
>> filename once, and only once.  Once it is in the database, there is no
>> way to manually trigger a reprocessing.  Similarly, once it is in the
>> database, it is ID'd with a hash value, so if the file is moved, the
>> existing data is matched up and pointed at the new file.  The only way
>> to start completely fresh is the way already mentioned.  Move your
>> content out of a folder used by MythVideo, scan, move it back in, and
>> rescan.
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> This works, by the way.  Still haven't had time to ponder whether I
> want to fight with regular expressions, or just rename my files to
> deal with the bracket issues.  One of these days...

thunar has an excellent bulk renamer.