[mythtv-users] Manually add files to Watch Recordings list?

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 20:26:45 EST 2005


On Monday 19 December 2005 19:04, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Steve Adeff wrote:
> >Is it possible to manually add videos the the Watch Recordings list?
> >I'd like to be able to add videos I have on my HDD to this list instead of
> >having to go through MythVideo since they're tv episodes anyway.
> >Is there an easy way to do this or do I just have to edit the db manually?
>
> There is a myth.rebuilddatabase.pl script in the contrib folder of the
> MythTV source that will let you add files.  If they are NUV just put
> them in your TV recording path and run.   If they are AVI or another
> extension, pass the --ext avi option to it.  It should prompt for all
> the necessary information.
>
> Kevin

great, I've been doing a few manually, this should speed that up, especially 
if I can automate grabbing the show info from tvtome.com.

-- 
thanks,
Steve


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