[mythtv] Insertion of external recordings into MythTV's recordings list

Nicholas McCoy mccoyn at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 14:04:04 UTC 2005


You might want to check out the myth.rebuilddatabase.pl script in the
contrib directory from CVS.  You can also see it at the following
link:
http://cvs.mythtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mythtv/contrib/myth.rebuilddatabase.pl?rev=1.6&view=auto

It sounds like with a little modification you might be able to get
that to do what you want.


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:00:46 +0000, Kevin James <rincewind at kjames.net> wrote:
> Hi
> I've been reading the list for a while now, and nothing has come up on a
> similar topic to this, so I figured I'd post.
> 
> Background:
> I have a TiVo (networked) in my living room connected to my satellite TV
> system, a mythtv backend with a tv-encoder card (which is elsewhere and
> can only receive a terrestrial signal), and a mythtv frontend in the
> bedroom. I'd like to watch my TiVo recorded programmes (as most of the
> stuff I watch is on satellite channels) in the bedroom on my mythtv box.
> I looked at the MythTivo module, but as it streams direct from the tivo
> and my myth frontend is an EPIA M6000, I get slow playback as it's not
> an MPEG recording. I found some software (see
> http://www.fumanchu.com/tivo) which allows me to dump down recordings
> from my TiVo in mpeg format on my server, which play back nicely on my
> M6000. I extended the scripts so that when a programme is grabbed from
> TiVo, it is inserted into the MythVideo database table. I can cron this
> to get any new TiVo stuff every night.
> 
> My problem is that I can see, in a short time, I will run out of space
> on my server, unless I manually keep the space down (and remove entries
> from the MythVideo DB Table). It occurred to me (after seeing many posts
> on the different possible ways to manage it) that the auto-delete
> feature of the main MythTV recordings list would be an ideal way to
> manage the space.
> 
> So, (finally!) my question is: Before I delve into the source code to
> figure out how to do it (i.e. how to populate the database correctly),
> can anyone think of any compelling reasons not to insert externally
> recorded programmes into the main MythTV recordings list? Or have I
> managed to come up with a fairly good idea?
> 
> Cheers,
> Kev.
> 
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