[mythtv] Multiple recording directories

Mark Edwards irish at irishmark.co.uk
Thu Jan 13 06:27:42 EST 2005


> I was thinking along these lines before Christmas when I 
> wanted to temporarily add an extra disk for Christmas films 
> to my server.
> I added a bit of code to Myth to allow me to do this, a bit of a hack.
> 
> This added the Global preference: "VideoDirs" beneath the 
> "RecordFilePrefix" option. This took a ":" separated list of dirs.
> This only worked for playback and you had to manually copy 
> files to these dirs. Also the expire system did not work here.
> 
> Some issues:
> 1. Would one directory be the master where files videos are stored
> 	and the other ones extra ones or should all dirs be
> 	equally used wherever space is available ?
> 2. If the directories are considered "extra" dirs MythTv
> 	could move all videos that are not marked to expire to these
> 	directories in the background automatically.
> 
> It didn't look like to much work to add although there were 
> quite a few places whene "RecordFilePrefix" was used.

I've been considering this recently too but had thought of a different
approach.
I was thinking about extending the recording groups functionality to allow
you to specify that a certain recording group would record to a certain
directory.

Then I could have a recording group for members of the family with their own
recording group and their own disk-space which they could manage themselves.
(to an extent!)

It's a step further towards having multi-user functionality which I think
would be a v. useful feature

Mark



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