<div dir="auto">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 18, 2017 12:53 AM, "John Pilkington" <<a href="mailto:J.Pilk@tesco.net">J.Pilk@tesco.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 18/08/17 00:34, Stephen Worthington wrote:<br>
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:37:44 -0700, you wrote:<br>
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If there a straightforward way to copy a recorded show to another location,<br>
i.e. a flash drive or network drive that's not configured as a storage<br>
group? I know you can go into the storage group partition and hunt for it<br>
but that's hard to do given the file naming conventions mythtv uses and a<br>
lot of recorded shows.<br>
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What are you trying to do by moving the file? You can just move<br>
recording files anywhere you like. If the file is no longer found on<br>
a storage group, MythTV will flag that it can not be found but will<br>
cope with that without any problems. You can also have links to<br>
recording files that rename them - there are scripts like mythlink for<br>
that:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/My<wbr>thlink.pl</a><br>
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Or you can export a copy of a recording along with its related<br>
database by using mythexport, and then use mythimport to import the<br>
copy into another MythTV database.<br>
<br>
Original Mythexport and Mythimport (works with older MythTV versions<br>
only):<br>
<a href="https://launchpad.net/mythexport" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/mythexp<wbr>ort</a><br>
<a href="https://launchpad.net/mythimport" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/mythimp<wbr>ort</a><br>
<a href="https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mythexport&searchon=names" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://packages.ubuntu.com/se<wbr>arch?keywords=mythexport&searc<wbr>hon=names</a><br>
<a href="https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mythimport&searchon=names" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://packages.ubuntu.com/se<wbr>arch?keywords=mythimport&searc<wbr>hon=names</a><br>
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My updated Mythexport and Mythimport (compatible with 0.28 and 29):<br>
<a href="http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/mythimport.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/<wbr>mythimport.html</a><br>
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The export/import process only works with compatible database<br>
versions, so leaving around a set of exported recordings will not be<br>
useful if the destination database gets upgraded to a version that has<br>
any changes in the recording tables.<br>
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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.<br>
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