[mythtv-users] adding files from elsewhere to myth

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/2012 10:08 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>
>> On 10/08/2012 05:17 PM, Evuraan wrote:
>>>
>>> I've mythtv 0.25.2, OTA wit hdhr dual.
>>>
>>> I generate (flv,mpg) files from publicly available, commercial laden,
>>> tv streams. I'd like to add these files to mythtv recording list, and
>>> need them processed by mythcommflag above all.
>>>
>>> I've couple of local channels that I never watch stuff on – so either
>>> I can pin these hourly dumps to those, or float a new channel. If i
>>> have the know-how, that is, and hence this email. :)
>>>
>>> I've seen recommendations to name the file as 1091_20121008070000.mpg,
>>> and have myth.rebuilddatabase.pl run against those files etc -  i am
>>> afraid these instructions are old, and does not apply to 0.25 that I
>>> am on.
>>>
>>> So in summary, how do I add files from elsewhere to mythtv?
>>
>>
>> Although myth.rebuilddatabase.pl has been deprecated it does work at least
>> partially.
>>
>> I suspect that part of the reason it has been deprecated is because it
>> does not insert the file size into the database. As a result, myth reports
>> it cannot find the file although the script has run properly and entered
>> everything else.
>
>
> It's primarily been deprecated because MythTV now has a very-capable place
> for including user-provided/user-managed content:  the Video Library.  Now
> that Video Library has full support for metadata and metadata grabbing
> (including fan art, banners, covers, ...), there's not a lot of reason to
> allow users to poke some fake recording information (having to make up fake
> channel and start time and (tons of other)... information) into the database
> to fool MythTV into thinking it had recorded the show.
>
> If you have other related content in Watch Recordings that you want grouped
> with your non-recording content, just move the real recordings to Video
> Library, too.
>
> And, since Video Library allows the user to organize the content however he
> desires, you actually have /much/ more capability in Video Library than in
> Watch Recordings.  Watch Recordings was really designed as "temporary"
> storage for recordings made by this MythTV system, and any other content
> (whether temporary or meant for long-term archival) belongs in Video Library
> (and due to its ability to allow user organization, it's easy enough to
> separate out the temporary and long-term content in Video Library).

So is there a plan to put ALL recordings into the video library?
(that's a wee bit what the above sounds like a prelude to.)