[mythtv-users] Saving a recorded show to another location

[DryHeat122 .]

That's what I wanted.  When I hit info I ger basic info, and when I hit it
again I get more info, but not the format, etc. options or file mgr
interface. But at least it gives me the filename.

On Aug 18, 2017 12:53 AM, "John Pilkington" <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> On 18/08/17 00:34, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:37:44 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>> If there a straightforward way to copy a recorded show to another
>>> location,
>>> i.e. a flash drive or network drive that's not configured as a storage
>>> group? I know you can go into the storage group partition and hunt for it
>>> but that's hard to do given the file naming conventions mythtv uses and a
>>> lot of recorded shows.
>>>
>>
>> What are you trying to do by moving the file?  You can just move
>> recording files anywhere you like.  If the file is no longer found on
>> a storage group, MythTV will flag that it can not be found but will
>> cope with that without any problems.  You can also have links to
>> recording files that rename them - there are scripts like mythlink for
>> that:
>>
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl
>>
>> Or you can export a copy of a recording along with its related
>> database by using mythexport, and then use mythimport to import the
>> copy into another MythTV database.
>>
>> Original Mythexport and Mythimport (works with older MythTV versions
>> only):
>>    https://launchpad.net/mythexport
>>    https://launchpad.net/mythimport
>>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mythexport&searchon=names
>>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mythimport&searchon=names
>>
>> My updated Mythexport and Mythimport (compatible with 0.28 and 29):
>>    http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/mythimport.html
>>
>> The export/import process only works with compatible database
>> versions, so leaving around a set of exported recordings will not be
>> useful if the destination database gets upgraded to a version that has
>> any changes in the recording tables.
>>
>
> Again, I'm not sure what you want to do.  Perhaps you can't identify the
> actual video file?  Its name, but not its location, is accessible from the
> frontend:  select it, then hit info (i), maybe twice.  mythlink will list
> recordings in a folder, with multiple format and naming options, which can
> be displayed, sorted and copied with a system file manager. You won't get
> the metadata, but the files can be played as videos in mythtv - drop into a
> video folder and rescan it - or other players that understand the format.
>
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