[mythtv-users] Moving foreign TV shows to videos

[Kenneth Emerson]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Kenneth Emerson
<kenneth.emerson at gmail.com>wrote:

> >
> >>> I would like to save these
> >>> episodes in my permanent video library and get it out of the Recordings
> >>> directory; however, I cannot figure out how to move the English titles
> and
> >>> description into the video metadata automatically.
> >
> >
> > Have you tried mythvidexport --listingonly on recordings without InetRef
> set?
> >
> Thanks, Karl, that's what I was missing. Works great.
>
> -- Ken E.
>
Just adding some additional information in case someone does a search and
comes across this thread:

The mythvidexport job will fail if the inetref field is populated when
using the --listingonly option.

If you want to have mythvidexport operate as a move instead of a copy, one
needs to add the --delete option.  According to the script source, it will
verify that the two files have the same length before deleting the
original.  And you can specify --really-safe to have it check the SHA1 hash
code.

Unfortunately, when the job succeeds, it does not carryover the "watched"
field.  That need s to be set manually once the episodes have been moved to
the videos section.  If I knew enough about python, I'd offer a patch, but
I barely get around in perl.

-- Ken E.
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