[mythtv] archiving to dvd

[Kenneth Aafløy]

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 06:27, Brent Hills wrote:
> I've been burning myth recordings to DVD for awhile now in their
> existing format.
> 
> I have just been replacing the file with a symbolic link to its location
> when mounted.  Works great and allows you to keep the commercial cut
> list, bookmarks and all the other information without any need to
> transcode.
> 
> However, the recordings list is getting cluttered.
> 
> What I was thinking of was to add a field to indicate the recording has
> been archived to exclude it from the list and somehow toggling the field
> when the disk is loaded.

Great feature idea!!

But wouldn't it be even better if the recordings data followed the file
somehow, almost like a tag, but an extra file, so all formats is
supported (*.mythinfo). And within that file where the details of the
recording that where exported. Although this would be something more
elaborate than what you are implying, but would be more feature-full, if
one could specify multiple *archive* locations that would be searched
after the main location...

> Is anyone else doing something similar already?

Not to my recollection, no..

Kenneth