[mythtv-users] Joined files in MythVideo

[Sarah Hayes]

Damian wrote:
> Sarah Hayes wrote:
>   
>> Damian wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have a few films that are split into multiple files. I've asked about 
>>> what to do with them before and was told about how to link them in the 
>>> meta data and turn off the display setting for all but the first file. 
>>> Linking the files with 'play file after' works fine (except for a few 
>>> seconds pause between files .. anyway to get rid of that or am I being 
>>> too fussy?), but I can't seem to stop multiple occurrences appearing in 
>>> the selection gallery. All of my films which have 2 files are showing up 
>>> twice in the gallery, even though I'm turning off the display setting. 
>>> Any ideas what's going on? It no biggie, purely cosmetic, but it would 
>>> be nice to sort it out.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> avimerge -i <file1> <file2> <fileX> -o <file.avi>  will join them up, 
>> assuming it's an AVI file and not say mkv, mpg or such.
>>
>> In the video manager, turn off the browsable flag on the second part; 
>> now and here's the trick.  In mythvideo, whilst viewing the media 
>> library (i.e. looking for stuff to watch not adding new videos) pull up 
>> the menu and select "Filter Display" go down to where it says 'browse' 
>> and nudge it from 'All' to 'Yes', save that as the default.
>>
>> That should remove all media flagged as 'do not show'.  You will, 
>> however, need to filter the display for all the different views if you 
>> use them.
>>
>>     
>
> Hello again,
>
> Your avimerge tip worked a treat. Everything is much neater now. 
> However, one of my films has .srt subtitles split over two .avi files so 
> I want to keep those files separate. I've set the flags of the second 
> file not to show, but can not find the "Filter display" section that you 
> describe in the gallery view. I've tried both the 'i' and 'm' keys. Am I 
> using an old version of MythVideo or something? I'm using a Mythbuntu 
> setup, but not SVN.
>
>   
Weird.  I'm on 20.x here (Ubuntu packages and Gentoo stable); if I go 
Media Library -> Watch Video's and press m I get a menu with

Filter Display
Switch to Browse
Switch to List
Cancel

on it, the two switch to's changing depending on what's in use... not 
sure where yours has gone.

Sarah