[mythtv-users] Delete/remove videos in Mythvideo after watching?

[Greg Lucas-Smith]

Hmm,

  This gives me an idea, I wonder if myth video keeps a "played" counter in
the database? I could write a script to automate your suggestion then...
On 19/01/2014 11:50 AM, "Stephen P. Villano" <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On 1/18/14, 9:32 PM, Greg Lucas-Smith wrote:
>
> In the video library.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:
>
>>  On 1/18/2014 8:37 PM, Greg Lucas-Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>    My kids watch the same shows over and over again, today my wife got
>>> annoyed at this and told me to delete all of their favourite shows.  I
>>> was wondering if there was a middle ground.
>>>
>>>    Does anyone know if it's possible to delete of remove videos from the
>>> video list after they've been watched?  Sort of an auto-expire on
>>> watched feature?
>>>
>>
>>  Is this in the Video Library, or for recordings?  Typically things go
>> into the Video Library specifically because users want to keep them long
>> term.
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>   I usually move used, viewed programs that start getting on nerves to a
> subdirectory.
> They're not deleted, they'll be available upon later desire, but for a
> bit, they're out of the way.
>
> I also have subdirectories in the main video directory. Myth scans them
> in, but shows the subdirectory.
> So, I have one for the grandkids, one for my father, the main for my wife
> and I and television shows that we kept in a TV_Shows subdirectory with
> subdirectories for series/seasons within that.
>
> In a worst case scenario, where I don't want to delete the programs, but
> make them unavailable, I can either move the programs out of the myth
> videos directory or simply change the permissions of the file.
> I'm starting to think of doing that for the Lord of the Rings trilogy,
> ripped to HD, which took forever, now they're being played to death...
>
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