[mythtvnz] Mythvideo 0.22 filename mangling

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 17:01:04 +1300, you wrote:

>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.

Thanks - that sounds a lot easier.  I never even thought about it
being a theme option.  So I can just get the source for the theme I
use and make my own personalised version.