[mythtvnz] Mythvideo 0.22 filename mangling

[Steve Hodge]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 16:04:36 +1300, you wrote:
>
>
> >On 6 March 2010 15:49, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
> wrote:
> >> Mythvideo introduced a number of new features in 0.22, and after using
> >> it for a while, I have found that I do not like some of them.  I have
> >> disabled Jamu.  But the thing that I find most annoying is the mangled
> >> file names.  Clearly the files I have downloaded do not follow the
> >> conventions that Mythvideo is expecting, and the resulting mangled
> >> names are really annoying.  So far, I have not found any way to turn
> >> this off and just get the real file names.  Is that possible?
> >>
> >> If not, then I think I will need to get the source for mythvideo and
> >> do a fix for myself.  Does anyone know how to get the source for the
> >> JYA version of mythvideo, and how to build packages from it after I do
> >> a build so that I can handle the updating in a sane manner?
>
> >Wouldn't it be easier to customize jamu (I'm pretty sure its python)
> >
> >Jason
>
> I have Jamu disabled, and the name mangling is still happening.  So it
> must be done as part of the main mythvideo code.
>

Yes, it's in the scanning code I believe. It tries to parse the filename
into series title, season number, episode number, and episode title from the
filename. But as I said, you can just change the theme to show the filename
rather than the title.

Cheers,
Steve
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