Thumbnails, filenames, etc

[Bill Denton]

As I'm rebuilding by Ubuntu/XBMC media centre, I am looking at
configuring get_iplayer again, so have a few questions:

1. Thumbnail tagging options. As far as I can tell MP4 (from .flv) are
tagged using AtomicParsley provided the "thumb = 1" is in the options
file. However, that still leaves the actual thumbnail file in the
directory as well, which seems a bit wasteful. Is there anyway of
getting get_iplayer to remove the separate thumbnail file. I think
that this would require a post processing file using the
"-c"/"--command" command line option or in options file "command
filename".
Similarly can the thumbnail be added to radio programmes. Although the
thumbnail can be downloaded, it isn't added to the file. This is an
issue which I have looked at before:
http://linuxcentre.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=152
But, I couldn't see a solution which would work for both .mp3 and .aac
audiofile. Again I'm thinking that a more complex post processing
solution is required. Suggestions welcome.

2. Removal of non Windows compatible characters from file names
I'm storing my media on an external NTFS formatted drive, so
characters such ":" can't be used. Is there any way of ensuring the
file names are Windows NTFS compatible?

3. Emailling
I have almost worked out how to get emails sent to myself with the
results of searches, so here it is for information:
get_iplayer --html test.html news
cat - > test.msg
To: dentonwe at gmail.com
From: dentonwe at gmail.com
Subject: iplayer
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Ctrl-D
cat test.msg test.html > test1.msg
ssmtp dentonwe at gmail.com < test1.msg

It should be possible to wrap this up in a cron job along with the pvr runs.

Bill.