[GRLUG] need some script help

[Ana]

I know for a fact that the Xbox can play mp4 files no problem. I think that
the issue lies with minidnla. Taking care of the root issue is always
better than putting together a "fix" that you constantly have to do every
time you want to add more media.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/forums/forum/879957/topic/3921557

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MiniDLNA


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Dave Chiodo <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Best to test.
>
> As Michael suggested, use "echo" in place of the "mv" to see what will
> happen.
>
> I might suggest you get in the habit of normalizing filenames of stuff
> you download to avoid spaces and other "special" characters that can
> cause problems.
>
> There are various utilities than can help with that - search on google.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah most of them have space in them so would either one work?
> >
> > Thanks for the quick response guys :)
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Dave Chiodo <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Gotta be wary of filenames with spaces though.
> >>
> >> For instance, if files were
> >>
> >> Movie1.mp4
> >> Long Movie.mp4
> >>
> >> A for-loop on that could easily end up doing:
> >>
> >> mv Movie1.mp4 Movie1.avi
> >> mv Long Long
> >> mv Movie.mp4 Movie.avi
> >>
> >> Also gotta watch for .mp4 vs .MP4 - windows f/s are not case
> >> sensitive, but *nix are.
> >>
> >> Movie.mp4 and Movie.MP4 are two different files on a *nix system and
> >> MOVIE.mp4 is yet a third.
> >>
> >> As far as WHY the xbox doesn't work when the file is called mp4 and
> >> does when its avi, its due to MS foolish use of file extensions
> >> instead of contents of the file or something more standard to
> >> determine what the type of data is.
> >>
> >> For a really long explanation of the issues, that is written from a
> >> Mac perspective (OSX is *nix), see
> >> http://arstechnica.com/apple/2001/08/metadata/
> >>
> >> (Sadly, its one of those spread-across-multiple-pages aticles and I
> >> couldn't find a one-page version of it. Its also quite old, but its
> >> points are still valid, even if they are now forgone lost-causes)
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Michael Glaske <mglaske at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > This should work..  beware though.. It's untested.. in BASH.
> >> >
> >> > for file in `find . -name \*.mp4`; do mv $file `echo $file | sed
> >> > 's/\(.*\.\)mp4/\1avi/'` ; done
> >> >
> >> > If you want to test it first, replace 'mv $file' with 'echo'.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hey GRLUGERS,
> >> >>
> >> >> New to scripting and all that but hoping to get some help out here.
> >> >> I've
> >> >> been using minidnla on my Ubuntu laptop to stream movies to my xbox
> and
> >> >> things are working very well.
> >> >>
> >> >> However I notice something... If I grab something off bittorent
> chances
> >> >> are it is a MP4 or a MKV file and my xbox can't stream it.
> >> >>
> >> >> For some reason if I rename the same file Big Bang Theory.mp4 to Big
> >> >> Bang
> >> >> Theory.avi the file will play on my xbox.  Not quite sure what
> happens
> >> >> in
> >> >> the rename of the file that makes the magic work but it does.
> >> >>
> >> >> So I'm wondering if there is a script guru that could look at all my
> >> >> files
> >> >> that either named *.mp4 or *.mkv and rename it to whatever it was
> .avi?
> >> >>
> >> >> Make sense?
> >> >>
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