[mythtv-users] How do I add existing avi files to mythtv's recordings?

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Tue Jan 3 14:28:21 UTC 2006


Steve Adeff wrote:

>On Monday 02 January 2006 20:57, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>William Kenworthy wrote:
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>>>How do I add existing avi files to mythtv's recordings?
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>>>Do I need to transcode into a particular resolution etc?
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>>In the contrib folder of the mythtv source is a script named
>>myth.rebuilddatabase.pl that will take an "--ext avi" command-line
>>option to import AVI files into Watch Recordings.
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>>Kevin
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>I made a modified version of this that scrapes tv.com for show information and 
>then adds it to the Watch Recordings list. If this is something that people 
>might want to play with let me know and I'll post it to the list. I've used 
>it for adding a few shows so far and its great, the g/f asked about this 
>cause I refuse to manage MythVideo for episodic stuff....
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I'd love to see this.  I have the skeleton of an "Import Recordings" 
screen for the frontend but I'm lacking the script that will automate 
this to the point of making it useful. 

Kevin


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