[mythtv] Importing files...

[Kevin Kuphal]

Chris Pinkham wrote:

>>One thing I'd like to do is have an easy way to import some AVI and 
>>other format files into the Watch Recordings screen rather than 
>>MythVideo where I can enter a simple title/description and have it show up.
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>Don't spend much time on this.  I already have this functionality sitting
>in my CVS tree at home. :)  It works great.  The only reason I haven't
>committed it to CVS is I was trying to think of a way to implement the
>multi-level directory functionality that the MythVideo browser provides.
>Right now my code gives you the option of creating a virtual "MythVideo"
>recording group or using MythVideo as the title and the normal video
>title as the subtitle so people can choose what best fits for them.
>
>I've been sitting on this for a month or two.  It currently displays
>all non-child videos with a parental level of 1 so that should be
>pretty safe.  It also is OFF by default, and must be turned on via a
>setting in MythVideo, so the user has to specifically turn on support
>for this or else they see no difference in the Watch Recordings screen.
>  
>
Yeah, that would be nice but I was thinking more of a simply utility 
that prompted for title, description and then made sure the resulting 
databsae entries and perhaps transcoding (probably not necessary) were 
created for the file and that the backend could find it (proper directories)

Kevin