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

Greg Lucas-Smith bwobbones at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 04:03:00 UTC 2014


I thought about this also, its a good suggestion, maybe a script that auto
set the parental control after watching would work? Just need some way of
triggering it.
On 19/01/2014 11:55 AM, "Paul Kendall" <pkendall64 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could use the parental controls so they can't see them without
> entering a pin.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:50 PM, 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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