[mythtv-users] Usage Question

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:44:55 -0500, you wrote:

>Curious how everyone deals with this.
>
>Using v35+fixes, driving from a remote FE only.
>Using Myth FE, dealing with programs that have been recorded, there are
>over 1500 of them, and driving with a clicker
>"Media Library" -> "Watch Recordings" and bottom line, the list is too
>huge to deal with this way.
>
>So, on a FileSystem, I would make sub-dirs for how I want things
>grouped like maybe seperate dirs for "John Wayne" movies or whatever
>and just move the files there.
>
>What is the recommened/suggested way of doing this ? (BTW, I do not
>need to transcode or cut comms etc.).
>
>Jim

I use the Ctrl-S search function from a keyboard.  I have a keyboard
that is light enough to pick up and use like this.  You also used to
be able to buy a remote that had a keyboard on its back side, but I
have never used one of them.  There is still a problem if you forget
the name of the programme you want to search for - I have sometimes
had to do manual SQL searches on the database to find things.

Also, as I record movies, I change their titles to "Movie" and move
the original title to the subtitle field, which then gives me a big
list of all my movies to search.  I wrote a little script to run as a
Job to partially automate this.  You can also set programmes as
Favourites and then they will be in the smaller Favourites list.

There is also the ability to create recording groups - you can set the
group in the recording rule, or change it later after the recording
has happened.  I do this for things I record for my mother, but I am
not going to want to watch myself.  Then the >> and << keys on the
remote can change the group to get just a list of one group.  Or use
M(enu) > Change Group Filter.  Also look at your settings for M(enu) >
Change Group View to change how the list is displayed.