id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc mlocked 2754 Colon in subtitle confuses mythfrontend, MythWeb ylee@… Nigel "I formerly ran the following script every hour in my crontab to gain human-readable filenames: perl /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.20/contrib/mythrename.pl --format ""\%T \%- \%Y-\%m-\%d, \%g-\%i \%A, ch\%c %- %S"" --replacement - This caused problems with four recordings. The one thing they have in common is that they all have a colon in their subtitles: Rick Steves' Europe Highlights of Paris: Eiffel and Monet to Crème Brulée Great Museums: Year of the Museum Specials Boston Children's Museum: Mind Over Matter Great Museums: Year of the Museum Specials National Baseball Hall of Fame: Home Base Great Museums: Year of the Museum Specials Riches, Rivals and Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America Neither mythfrontend nor MythWeb was able to find the recordings after the renamings, even though the file names matched what MythWeb would tell me it couldn't find when I clicked on one of these recordings. When I altered the crontab entry to read perl /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.20/contrib/mythrename.pl --format ""\%T \%- \%Y-\%m-\%d, \%g-\%i \%A, ch\%c %- %S"" --replacement - --in other words, no longer include subtitles in the human-readable filenames--mythfrontend was able to see and play the newly-renamed recordings (also, of course, showing that mythbackend never lost track of the files, as the script was able to work through it to rename them again). Also note that this issue has nothing to do with having a colon or other punctuation in recordings' titles; I've watched plenty of other episodes of Rick Steves' Europe, for example. This issue existed at least as far back as 0.19 and still exists in 0.20-fixes." defect closed minor unknown mythtv 0.20 medium worksforme mythrename.pl colon 0