[mythtv-users] Splitting movies from TV series

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Nov 20 03:47:26 UTC 2013


On 11/19/2013 10:37 PM, Andrew Leech wrote:
> I have a feeling there's a way to change this in the theme files or 
> frontend settings.
> I say this because I've got two frontends at home, the main lounge 
> (which is combined frontend + backend) and bedroom one, both with 
> completely different (self modified) themes.
>
> I've got all my saved tv shows and movies scattered and mixed in a few 
> different video folders (on different drives) that are all in the 
> storage group.
>
> On the lounge frontend, the videos screen does separate tv shows and 
> movies automatically at the top root of the browser (I can't remember 
> which mode my video screen is set to, list or browse etc).
> This is dependent on the tv shows being organised into the folder 
> structure mythtv expects as per 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
>
> On bedroom one however they are mixed together in one list, although 
> tv shows all appear to be a the top of the list (might be just that 
> folders are at the top).
>
> I've been meaning to consolidate the two themes and get the video page 
> working consistently, I'll look into that hopefully tonight and get 
> back to you.

This is likely due to a Browse By setting on the frontends that show TV 
vs Movies (set to "TV/Movies").  (Check under MENU|Browse By.)

It may be what JYA wants, but if not (or if he wants to be able to use 
other Browse By's), he'll need to use subdirectories to organize.

Mike


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