On Fri Oct 30 2:34 , Johnny <jarpublic@gmail.com> wrote:> I've seen the posts about makemkv, but obviously this doesn't fit my problem<BR>
>> very well as I can't preserve menus. It seems I'm left with little choice<BR>
>> but to not-implement storage groups for my videos directory.<BR>
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>MakeMKV doesn't just do the whole ISO to a single MKV file. It creates<BR>
>an MKV for each title. I believe most TV show DVDs have a title for<BR>
>each episode. So you should be able to you MakeMKV to create<BR>
>individual files for each episode by just selecting those titles, and<BR>
>maybe unselecting the "play all" title.<BR>
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Thanks. Yes. This is certainly rthe case for most series DVD's., but this series seems to be authored very strangely,<BR>
with no titles, and the chapters overlapping where one episode ends and the next begins. It's a pain.<BR>
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>> The question is which storage groups NEED to be in place for live tv to<BR>
>> function correctly, and which should be removed, and just specified on the<BR>
>> individual frontends? I'm quite happy continuing to use nfs for my other<BR>
>> frontends to playback movies.<BR>
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>The Default and LiveTV storage groups are used for recordings and are<BR>
>independent of the video storage group. So you can and should set<BR>
>those up like normal and it will have no impact on mythvideo and ISO<BR>
>files. LiveTV will use the Default storage group if you don't have a<BR>
>LiveTV group set up. That is the way I have it. For mythvideo the<BR>
>relevent storage groups are: Videos, Fanart, Banners, Screenshots, and<BR>
>Coverart. See this:<BR>
>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_.22_Transition_Guide for info<BR>
>about how to use or not use storage groups for video. Basically if you<BR>
>want to use them for mythvideo you set it all up in the backend with<BR>
>mythtv-setup. If you don't want to use storage groups you leave them<BR>
>blank in mythtv-setup and you set it up on your frontends in the media<BR>
>settings and make the appropriate network shares.<BR>
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I moved the iso's to a folder outside my storage groups, and have set a frontend videos directory to point to it. Haven't done anything with artwork, posters etc. They're all still handled by Storage groups. I didn't have time to test yetserday, but saw from the backend log that both the storage group locations and the iso directory were scanned for content. Hopefully it will work.<BR>
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Have read the transition guide, but the info on how NOT to use storage groups wasn't very clear.<BR>
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Will play about more when I have time.<BR>
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Cheers!<BR>
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Marius<BR>
</jarpublic@gmail.com><BR>