[mythtvnz] Mythvideo 0.22 filename mangling

[Steve Hodge]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:49 PM, 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?
>

You don't need to alter the source, just the theme. The filename is already
available to the theme so it's just a matter of replacing the title with the
filename in the title box (or adding it as a new box).

I found I had to do a bit of messing around to get everything working
smoothly, in particular I had to modify the theme quite a bit (mainly
because it's a widescreen theme but I'm using a 4:3 resolution) but now I
think it looks great (see screenshot attached - note the full filename at
the bottom). So long as your naming convention allows Myth to correctly
interpret the series and episode number it's very painless: I just save the
file, scan (which you can now do in MythVideo) find what I want to watch and
hit 'w' to get the details and image.

Cheers,
Steve
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