[mythtv-users] HOWTO: exclude subdir from MythVideo indexing?

[ian at duckland.org]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Ross Campbell wrote:

> What I'd like to do is exclude my "nuvexported TV shows" from mythvideo new
> video scanning, and only browse them from the "folder view". Is there some
> entry in a dotfile in that directory that exists to tell mythvideo to not
> scan that dir? Any other way to do this?

I did this (yesterday in fact) by setting new TV shows to browse level 3, 
where my default level is 2.  And one sql command (something like:

WHERE "videometadata" WHERE "title" LIKE "%/shows/%" browseflag = 3;

or something completely unlike that...)

I can tell you when I get home and check my machine...

> I remember seeing messages about a directory-specific dotfile (.mythvideo?)
> that could contain a specific player command to override defaults for a give
> directory. Could that file be expanded to provide override default values
> for new files discovered in that directory and all subdirs as well?
>
> Also, regarding nuvexport and sql metadata... is there any video file
> container format that has the equivalent of an "ID3 tag" that can be used
> with nuvexport for storage of the show metadata that is in the mythtv
> database? I know Matroska has tag support... does any other video container
> support tags? http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/tagging/

Turns out I just found:

http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/dvd2divx_addinfo_new.html

from a little googling.  But one would need to extend mythvideo to 
recognize the tags.  And nuvexport to populate the tags... wouldn't be a 
bad idea though - definitely comes in handy when exporting entire seasons 
of shows (like I did to 4400 Season 2 last night)...

 	-I