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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/17/2006 07:55 AM, Warren wrote:

> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>>On 03/16/2006 08:49 AM, Warren wrote:
>>
>>>Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>>>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...
>>    
>>
> 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?


Needed for playback.  Myth currently makes some assumptions about the 
location of recordings.  There are many good reasons for this--including 
safety.  In the future (probably 0.20), you should be able to specify a 
list of directories you want to use to record/store recordings.

>   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?


TTBOMK, there is no way to get MythVideo to skip commercials--even with 
the Internal player.

Therefore, you'll need to use "ln -s", but no subdirectories.  I posted 
a patch to the -dev list quite a while ago that allows the use of 
subdirectories for storage (not recording), but I don't know if it will 
still apply--I don't use it anymore--and I don't recommend its use.  
There are some limitations--primarily dealing with multiple 
filesystems--that could have "undesired" effects (including destructive 
effects).  I have since decided that allowing multiple directories 
requires Myth to have additional filesystem information.

The discussion of the "Storage Groups" idea (multiple recording 
directories) is at 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/180048#180048 .

Mike