[mythtv-users] User Job to rip subtitles from each program

[Michael T. Dean]

fixed top-posting

On 01/30/2012 07:09 PM, David Crawford wrote:
> On 30 January 2012 23:33, Jeremy Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:34 PM, David Crawford wrote:
>>> I managed to get the script to work as a userjob in the end (whay hey!)
>>>
>>> only thing is the file names system of the recordings. I use an app to
>>> search through the subtitles and its designed to work with files with a
>>> particular format (basicially the one used in DVBVIewer).
>>>
>>> Is there a way that I can maybe add a script that can change the
>>> filenames of the ripped subtitle files to read like:
>>> %date%-%time%-%channel%-%programme% ?
>> Take a look at mythlink.pl.  It is designed to create symbolic links
>> of your recordings with *pretty* names like you described above, but
>> with some string substitutions, I bet you can piece something together
>> to work for your user created subtitle files. (If I understand what
>> you are doing in your userjob correctly)
> Yeah, I actually took a look at that. The thing is I want to actually
> re-name the subtitle files only in this "pretty" format otherwise the
> application I have wont be able to read them properly. Just not sure how to
> piece together what i need..

I was thinking your script is in Python, in which case you probably want 
to use the Python bindings' support for creating pretty names.  It works 
with the same formatting specifiers as the Perl bindings'/mythlink.pl ones.

Mike