[mythtv-users] Splitting movies from TV series

[Joey Morris]

John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com> wrote on Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 09:30:11PM -0600:
> On 11/19/2013 9:18 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >For years I had a single videos folder, containing subfolders like
> >Actions, Romance, Family, Cartoons and ... TV
> >
> >And the videos storage group was linked to that single folder.
> >
> >the actual directory structure actually being:
> >/data/videos
> >/data/recordings
> >/data/images
> >/data/music
> >/data/photos
> >
> >This suited me fine.
> >
> >I want to change it however so the actual directory structure is like so:
> >/data/videos/movies
> >/data/videos/TV
> >/data/videos/recordings
> >/data/images
> >/data/music
> >/data/photos
> >
> >(reason for this is that I'm migrating all my files to a ZFS NAS
> >server which will be mounted via NFS)
> >
> >So when I go into the mythvideo I get to choose immediately between
> >movies and TV
> >
> >So I modified the videos storage group so it would have a link to
> >/data/videos/movies and to /data/videos/TV
> >
> >Problem with this setup is that the content of TV and movies are
> >merged into a single content, which makes it very impractical to
> >navigate.
> >
> >Obviously, I could have changed my SG to point to /data/videos itself;
> >but then it shows the "recording" folder which I don't want to see
> >there.
> >
> >So is there a way to have the directory structure describe above, that
> >will present me separately the TV and movie folder?
> >
> >Thanks
> >JY
>
> How about:
> 
> /data/videos/videos/movies
> /data/videos/videos/TV
> 
> with the SG pointing to /data/videos/videos

My suggestion is:

/data/videos/movies
/data/videos/TV
/data/recordings
/data/images
/data/music
/data/photos

with the SG pointing to /data/videos.