[mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Mon Jan 9 22:18:31 UTC 2006


On Monday 09 January 2006 17:12, David Abrahams wrote:
> Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> writes:
> > On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
> >> I have an existing video recording in a format already supported by
> >> MythTV playback.  How can I add it to my backend's list of recordings?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Dave
> >
> > Drop it in your mythvideo directory and go to Utilities/Setup>Video
> > Manager (assuming you are auto-scanning your videos directory). It
> > will scan the folder and add it to your videos list.
>
> I don't think the video manager is what I want.  First of all, it's
> apparently only designed for using an external player, not for playing
> within the MythTV frontend.  Secondly, the video manager seems
> completely messed up when you are running multiple frontends, since
> they are recorded in the global backend database but only referenced
> relative to the frontend's local filesystem.

For multiple frontend machines, use a common fileserver for everywhere.

Isaac


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