[mythtv-users] adding files from elsewhere to myth

[Joseph Fry]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 10/14/2012 06:47 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>
>> On 13 October 2012 00:10, Joseph Fry wrote:
>>
>>  mtdean wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is where we're going.  You will put them in Video Library to make
>>>>> them available to MythTV.  Where you see them will be up to you.
>>>>>
>>>> This sounds great! I too, have been importing stuff into Watch
>>>> Recordings, because I haven't really liked the Video Library.
>>>>
>>> My only wish with regard to this would be that mythtv could be aware that
>>> a particular episode was imported and somehow know not to record it
>>> again.
>>>   I know it would be hard because the metadata wouldn't necessarily line
>>> up
>>> with the recording rules... but if that could be overcome (perhaps by
>>> doing
>>> metadata searches on scheduled recordings and comparing to previously
>>> imported episodes) it would be pretty awesome.
>>>
>> I get around this today with a modified version of mythmediamonitor
>> http://nowsci.com/**mythmediamonitor/<http://nowsci.com/mythmediamonitor/>
>>
>> Which also inserts into the oldrecorded table.
>>
>> but glad to hear built in support is coming in the future.
>>
>
> But there's no possible way that mythmediamonitor would be able to pull
> the same (TMS-copyrighted) description, and it shouldn't be able to pull
> the TMS-proprietary (not-for-external-use) DataDirect Program IDs, so you'd
> have to use hacks like "subtitle-only" duplicate matching--and hope that
> the subtitles are identical in the TMS data and on the metadata site (and
> I've seen /many/ that aren't).  That means you'd lose the performance
> advantage you get from using pre-computed ID matching versus string
> matching (so it would increase your scheduler run times).
>

For most shows, there is other unique information that both schedules
direct and other services offer, such as original air date.
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