[mythtv-users] Mything thomething

[Robert McNamara]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

>
> Alas, there *is* a step 5: mourn all the TV shows you lost on your *live
> production device* that were recorded after the upgrade, and for which you
> now have media files, but no way to recover the DB entries that match them.
>

Although admittedly not ideal, the recommended solution to this would
be to name the orphaned files with title, season, and episode, and
drop them into mythvideo.  A metadata grab will pull back in metadata,
and at least you have the ability to use the content, with
semi-equivalent metadata.  Obviously there are some shortcomings to
that approach-- Not all shows necessarily have metadata available, and
people who are picky about where the content lives (or having exactly
the same metadata they got from their listings source) get cranky.

Addressing one of the above shortcomings, we have some plans moving
forward for video and recording content to share some common database
tables, so there is an opportunity there to potentially allow records
to move bidirectionally between videos and recordings at the user's
discretion.  It'll take a little time to work out how exactly that
works, and the work will be done over the course of a few releases,
people's schedules permitting.

Robert