[mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

James C. Dastrup jc at dastrup.com
Mon Jan 9 22:19:48 UTC 2006


>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.
 
1) Change the player to "Internal" for just that recording, then it uses
MythTV's native internal player.

2) Change the Video path so it matches on all frontend. This is easily done by
just adjusting your mount points.


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