TVHeadend TV recordings named weirdly

Brian M.

Hi everyone,

I'm having an issue with recording OTA TV and how the resultant video files are named.

First, the essential background info:

This is TVHeadend version 4.2.6 running on a Vero4K box (which itself uses Linux Vero4k 3.14.29-126-osmc). Antenna is connected to an HDHomeRun Duo. The resultant video files are stored on a Synology DS418j NAS.

For now, I've been connecting to TVHeadend (on the Vero4K) via a browser on my Windows 7 PC.

So, I've set things up as best I can and it appears to be working. However, I've noticed something weird in regards to file naming.

I tried recording some random TV programs and on the Digital Video Recorder -> Finished Recordings page, you'll notice that some titles have an asterisk next to them.

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The problem is when you use Explorer to check out the folder, you end up with this.

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The shows with the asterisk are the ones with that crazy folder name (the actual video files within those folders are equally strangely named).

Here's a shot of the EPG - notice some titles have the asterisk. These will inevitably get the weird names.

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Since I'm sure it's important, under Configuration -> Recording the format string is set as:

$t/$t$.e$n.$x

ly chen

Try changing the "Filename character set:" to UTF-8 under Configuration -> Recording, your setting maybe "ASCII".

Brian M.

Thanks Ly. Indeed, it was set to ASCII. I'll have to experiment a little and see if that did the trick.

Asuan Nosferatu

This is not problem with UTF-8, ASCII do not solve this, because Windows has reserved some special chars (/\?*:|><) and not supotred it in diretory/file name.

in Tvheadend 4.3.1361
Tvheadend web GUI -> Configuration -> Recordings -> section "Filename/Tagging Settings" -> check "Use Windows compatible filenames" (change all reserved chars to underscore)