[mythtv-users] Exporting recordings

Jim Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 11:49:14 UTC 2020


On 1/30/20 12:28 AM, DryHeat122 . wrote:
> Hi. I was wondering what is the best way to export a recording, other 
> than hunting through /video for the most plausible filename and 
> verifying and copying that.  I saw something in the wiki 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Using_MythTV#Exporting_Recordings about 
> nuvexport (which sounds like just what I want) but the links 
> associated with that seem to be dead.
>
It would depend on you needs, but for me I wanted to export a Recorded 
TV series that I wanted to keep on a USB Flash drive to use on a laptop 
when I travel for amusement.

All my TV recordings are over the air USA MPEG2 ATSC format. I found a 
script on mythtv forum that you could setup as a job on mythtv to 
transcode to mp4v and send to a NAS or other storage device.

https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1261&p=7857&hilit=sendTVtonas#p7857

So my process was to go through the list of episodes and edit out the 
commercials, then tag each one with the post processing job of 
sendTVtonNAS and move on to the next.  At the end I had all recordings 
in a directory on my external storage. The filenames were tagged with 
the show name and episode number.

There are a few edits of the script to make it do exactly what you want.

Jim A





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