[mythtv-users] looking for a fake file system

Tom Sparks tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au
Wed Apr 7 23:36:15 UTC 2010


--- On Thu, 8/4/10, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:

> From: Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] looking for a fake file system
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Received: Thursday, 8 April, 2010, 2:30 AM
> On 4/7/2010 04:04, Tom Sparks wrote:
> > Cold_Case\
> >      Season_00\
> >            [00x00]
> Jurisprudence.avi
> >            [00x00]
> Soul.avi
> >            [00x00]
> Chinatown.avi
> >            [00x00]
> Forensics.avi
> > 
> > 
> > is it possible?
> 
> No.  Season and episode number are not available to
> use for recordings.

Is there a website that I can download that information from?

> 
> 
> On 4/7/2010 04:18, Fa wrote:
> > look into mythtvfs (http://outflux.net/software/pkgs/mythtvfs-fuse/) which
> uses fuse (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/).
> 
> MythTVfs is not a solution.  It is not designed for
> human readable output, but rather puts all the metadata in
> the title for one specific external program to access
> it.  The format is uses is:
> 
> {SERIES_TITLE}{AIR_DATE}{EPISODE_TITLE}{RECORD_DATE}{CHANNEL}{DURATION}{DESCRIPTION}FILE.mpg
> 
> and with the description in there, I'm honestly surprised
> it doesn't conflict with the 255 character limit more
> often.
> 
> MythFS (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/branches/release-0-23-fixes/mythtv/contrib/exports/mythfs.py)
> is intended for human readable output, and is compatible
> with the format strings used by mythlink.pl.

tell me more and how do I set it up?

Is there a way that when the files are requested that get sent via mencoder or ffmpeg to convert to AVI/DIVX?

tom sparks


      



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