[mythtv-users] Usage Question

[Jay Harbeston]

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> Personally, I use Recording Groups. You can do this before and after the fact. IOW, you can specify a recording group in a recording rule. Or, you can move recordings to different groups after they've been recorded.
> 
> Moving recordings to the video library can be tedious, especially if you want the meta data (like the original title and description). A tool like mythlink.pl might help.
> 
> As for moving existing recordings into different recording groups, you can easily move entire TV series at a time. Use the group menu when you're in the left hand column and choose to "Add this Group to Playlist", followed by "Playlist Options" -> "Storage Options" -> "Change Recording Group". You can also add one item at a time to the play list and then move the entire playlist using the second step to "Change Recording Group".
> 
> If you're comfortable with sql and/or phpmyadmin, you can move a lot of stuff by changing the recgroup of any recorded entry whose programid starts with MV. Something like:
> UPDATE `recorded` SET `recgroup` = 'Movies' WHERE `recorded`.`programid` like 'MV%';
> If you do it this way, you'll need to leave the "Watch Recording" screen in mythfrontend and then go back in to see the results.
> 
> Another thing I do to assist in navigating is assign a remote button to the keybinding, Global->PAGEMIDDLE. I use the same key that toggles closed captions in playback mode, T.
> This lets me get to the titles in the that start with M, N, or O when I'm on the left hand column of "Watch Recordings", and then I can page up or down from there. Similarly, I've assigned the keybindings I use to skip commercials in playback, Z & Q, to jump to the top & bottom of lists outside of playback mode, the keybinding for those are, Global->PAGETOP and GLOBAL->PAGEBOTTOM.
> 

I would like to add that I use the mythvidexport.py utility available on  mythtv.org <http://mythtv.org/> for migrating video from the ’Television’ side over to the Videos side. It there is metadata for a given table that has been populated while as a ’Television’ video, that metadata is migrated along with the recording.
One caveat I have found in the mythvidexport is that it does try to do a lookup of metadata, and from my experience fails more often than not. I have modified my copy of mythvidexport to not try to do a metadata lookup and just take what is available. 


> I've also tweaked my frontend theme to wrap around to the bottom from the top when I press the UP arrow and to wrap from the bottom to the top when I press DOWN. That's something the MythCenter themes, as installed, don't do, but some other themes do.


Regards,

Jay
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