[mythtv-users] Use internal viewer for mpg files from mythvideo?

[Warren]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/16/2006 08:49 AM, Warren wrote:
>
>   
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On 03/16/2006 07:04 AM, warren-lists at icruise.com wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Is there any way to get the internal mythtv viewer to be the viewer for
>>>> mpeg 2 videos?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Set the player command for files with the appropriate extension to 
>>> "Internal" (no quotes).
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I would like to be able to do commercial skip on videos
>>>> that I have recorded from other sources.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> That's a whole other matter.  Commercial skip is only set up to work 
>>> with MythTV recordings--not on MythVideo videos.  Therefore, you'll have 
>>> to import the show into MythTV's recordings (see 
>>> contrib/myth.rebuilddatabase.pl) then run mythcommflag to rebuild the 
>>> seektable and then run mythcommflag to mark commercials ("mythcommflag 
>>> --help").
>>>
>>>       
>> Would the shows then have to be moved into the path (/mnt/store) of 
>> mythtv?
>>     
>
>
> Assuming /mnt/store is your MythTV recordings directory (RecordFilePrefix).
>
> Yes for recordings with commflagging, no for MythVideo videos with 
> Internal player and without commflagging.  Videos must be withing the 
> MythVideo directory structure to be recognized by the scanner.
>
> Note, a link in the recordings/video directory to a file in a different 
> location will work for both recordings and videos...
>
> Mike
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Is the directory limitation a matter of the where the scanner runs in
the first place to do the flagging, or is it somethign that is needed
for playback?  The reason I am asking is that I have hundreds of
recordings across 6 hard drives made by my ReplayTV boxes, which I am in
the process of replacing.  The ReplayTV recordings have EVT files, which
are lists of commercial start and stop points.  If the scanning is
something done once then I could write something to import these files -
I have to imagine this would be faster than commercial scanning a half
terrabyte of MPEG recordings.

I have figured out the problems with getting these to play properly in
MythVideo (telling MV to ignore the ndx and evt files and using the
Internal player), so I was wondering if I could import the commercial
start and stop points and have the Internal player recognize them even
outside of /mnt/video.  If not I suppose ln -s will work, it will just
make for a very busy directory.  If I do have to go the ln-s route, do
subdirectories work or will I have link every file?

Thanks,
Warren
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