[mythtv-users] Is there a script to generate schedule from list of titles?

[Frank Feuerbacher]

On 5/2/2013 11:44 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/02/2013 12:26 PM, Frank Feuerbacher wrote:
>> We have a list of ~200 movies that we would like to rerecord due to 
>> poor quality. I would like to add them all to the custom record list 
>> using a script. Does such an animal already exist, or is this a roll 
>> your own thing? Can you suggest any tools or scripting language that 
>> I might use to accomplish this? (PHP, Python, Perl...)
>
> Where are they?  If they're in your Watch Recordings, you could put 
> them into a specific recording group (i.e. "Movies to re-record" and 
> then set up a custom rule to record any show with a title that matches 
> one of the shows in that recording group.  The only issue you'll have 
> is with duplicate matching, and you can fix that by disabling 
> duplicate matching on the rule (but then you'll have to watch and any 
> time one re-records, you'll need to delete the old/bad one so it's no 
> longer in the recording group)...
>
> Or, to make it low maintenance, don't disable duplicate matching on 
> the recording group, and go through and allow re-record on each of the 
> recordings in the recording group.
>
We recorded these long before we got mythTV. Even now we just use myth 
to record. We immediately extract and delete each recording, trim, then 
encode with Handbrake and import into XBMC.  This does beg another 
question: is there a way to import my XBMC library into mythtv? First, 
so that I know what I have already recorded and second, so that I can 
tag selected (or groups) for rerecording. I assume that I can write a 
script for this purpose as well. I assume that I can convert XBMC 
metadata to mythtv metadata so that they both agree on the identity of 
the recordings. Heck, I could probably import the file path so that I 
could play from XBMC or mythtv. I'm talking about 5T of movies and TV 
shows (somewhere around 2,000 movies and 1,000 old TV episodes).