[mythtv-users] Recording titles via UPnP

[Dave Ulrick]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2017, John Pilkington wrote:

> On 11/08/17 14:03, Dave Ulrick wrote:
>>  I have a couple of Blu-Ray players that recognize my MythTV 0.28 backend
>>  via UPnP. Folders are presented which list my recordings. However, the
>>  titles aren't very user-friendly. The title itself is shown but no other
>>  identifying information such as subtitle is shown. For instance, if I have
>>  multiple recordings of series XYZ, I see:
>>
>>  XYZ
>>  XYZ
>>  XYZ
>>  XYZ
>>  ...
>>
>>  I'd rather see:
>>
>>  XYZ -- The Beginning
>>  XYZ -- More Adventures
>>  XYZ -- Here We Go Again
>>
>>  and so forth.
>>
>>  Any suggestions?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Dave
>
> Use mythlink  - see immediately preceding posts.  Put its results folder in 
> your videos directory and scan for new videos.  Or you can copy just a few 
> links instead.  And have an empty folder that you can link in as an 
> alternative videos source so that you can reset things easily.  See 
> yesterday's posts!

I'm somewhat familiar with mythlink. In fact, I have a cron job set up to 
run it several times a day.

Just now I symlinked my Links directory into the Video directory then ran 
a video scan. This rendered mythbackend unresponsive (perhaps because I 
have hundreds of recorded episodes) so I backed out this change. I also 
tried symlinking Links into the Recordings directory but my UPnP client 
doesn't see a Links folder inside Recordings.

In the past, I played around with Serviio, a UPnP server. I was able to 
get it to serve my MythTV Links directory so that my UPnP clients would 
see it but it seemed to me that Serviio was a bit of a resource hog so I 
stopped running it. I suppose I could try it once more.

Dave
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Dave Ulrick
d-ulrick at comcast.net