If you record TV shows using your MythTV DVR, you may want to play them on an iPod, a PSP, or even through a Windows Media Center system. Another desire might be to burn your recordings onto a DVD.

There are several different ways you can export MythTV recordings to a different format for consumption by devices not running MythTV. This might be a Windows Media Center computer or it might be a portable device capable of playing digital video files, such as the Video iPod or a PlayStation Portable. You might also have reason to burn recordings onto either VCD or DVD. All these uses require you to convert MythTV native formats into something else.

If you simply want to be able to browse your recordings outside MythTV and make sense of them based on filename alone, check out mythrename.pl in the contribs subdirectory of the official MythTV distribution. Copy mythrename.pl from the MythTV distribution contribs subdirectory to /usr/local/bin/ and make it executable:

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