[mythtv-users] recordedseek table content

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 14:47:08 UTC 2010


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 06:30, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>
> On 13 December 2010 08:45, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/12/2010 17:00, D. R. Newman wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/12/10 21:08, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>
>>>> See http://mythtv.org/wiki/Mythvidexport.py
>>>> It already does most of those operations as a user job, plus allows user
>>>> defined formatting of the resultant filename, and metadata pulling from
>>>> the defined data grabbers in MythVideo.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reference. I knew about mytharchive, and the different
>>> job it does, but had not come across mythvidexport.py . I take it that
>>> it doesn't transcode the file, just moves it? (I have to ask, because
>>> Python isn't one of the languages I have used.)
>>
>> Correct.  It copies the recording as it exists over to MythVideo.  It does
>> not do any transcoding.
>
> Silly question but what is the point of that?
> other then grouping everything in mythvideo?
> I thought the whole point of mythvideo was to play back anything that wasn't
> a recording or a place to export recordings after transcoding to reduce
> storage requirements?
>
> Recordings and MythVideo exist as different organizational strategies.
> Recordings are only separated by title, and sorted by date, while MythVideo
> can incorporate much deeper folder trees, including season divisions sorted
> by episode number.  Recordings are best done on independent disks to best
> use the balancing capabilities of storage groups, while MythVideo is fine on
> single large redundant array.
>
> In my case, I've only got about a TB of storage for recordings on a couple
> spare old drives.  Anything I want to keep gets flagged, losslessly clipped,
> and migrated over to MythVideo.

Hi Raymond,

This script is exactly what I would like to do (move recordings to
mythvideo permanently) , just not to the extent that it is so
customizable.  I cannot find this in any of my mythtv sources though.
Is it something that is going to be in the distributed source, or
somewhere we can grab it?  I cannot find it in git currently.

Glad I read this thread.

Thanks!


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