[mythtv-users] help moving recordings to video

[Joseph Fry]

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>> You can't do hierarchical layout in Watch Recordings.  You can't specify
>> sort order (other than by changing settings in mythfrontend setting that
>> allow you to sort by record time or original airdate or program ID,
>> only--versus by title, season/episode, year, rating, runtime, filename,
>> ...).  You can't do filtering on country, actors, year, runtime, rating...
>>  You /only/ get recording groups.  You only get one recording group per
>> recording.  You can choose to show in the left column All Programs, titles,
>> recording groups, and/or categories, but if you show titles, you have a ton
>> to scroll through when your collection gets large.  If you use recording
>> groups like you said, displaying recording groups in the left means you'll
>> have a ton to scroll through.  It's /much/ more clumsy than Video
>> Library--because Video Library was designed for working with a large
>> collection (er, library?) of videos; whereas Watch Recordings was designed
>> for working with a smaller set of "what was recently recorded."
>>
>> Really, Video Library was designed for large collections of video.  If
>> you haven't tried "the new Video Library" and are basing your opinion off
>> old versions of MythTV, you're only making your life harder.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
> Some useful info in this thread, thanks.
>
> On the topic of moving videos to mythvideo, I posted a while ago with
> maybe a slightly non-standard case:
>
>    - To move a recording to mythvideo with ads removed (transcoded,
>    rather than just with a cut list)
>    - To have the resulting file saved to a custom directory, rather than
>    the default recordings directory
>
> Is there a way of doing this?  I posted the script I was trying in the
> other thread, which I had no joy with.  Not had much chance to look again
> since I last posted, so will have another look this weekend, just moved
> house, so a bit all over the place at the moment!!
>
>
You should be able to just replace the default transcode command with
whatever you wish to run, perhaps a script.  See:
http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2011-September/320560.html
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