On Sunday 04 January 2009, Vladimir Kangin wrote:
You right. For example I'm keen of LinuxMCE (www.linuxmce.org) and it has a script that looking for media files, thus all .vdr are recognised as a video files of VDR while is not. It would would be a very wise step to improve this at the same time...
Without knowing a thing about LinuxMCE, I suppose its scripts could be improved to only look for <numbers>.vdr. For example, if it uses find(1), instead of
find /some/dir -name '*.vdr'
...it could do:
find /some/dir -regex '.*/[0-9]+.vdr'
...or if "-regex" is a problem, perhaps even simply this would be an improvement over '*.vdr':
find /some/dir -name '???.vdr'
(This is not in any way an objection to the renaming plans discussed here lately, the outcome of that seems good to me.)