[mythtv-users] Adding to Media Library manually?

[Kevin Kuphal]

David Blevins wrote:

> On Sep 23, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Robert Johnston wrote:
>
>> On 23/09/05, David Blevins <david.blevins at visi.com> wrote:
>>
>>> So I'm having a heck of a time ripping with MythDVD.  No worries as I
>>> really don't care to if I can avoid it.  I have a ton of dvds already
>>> ripped and burnt and simply want to copy a few of them to disk now
>>> and then for easy access via the Media Library.  Not afraid of
>>> showing stuff in the mythconverg db via perl fun to do this.
>>>
>>> Any pointers?
>>>
>>
>> Copy the files into the Video folder (That MythVideo is looking at),
>> and go into "Setup -> Video Manager" on the Frontend, which will
>> automatically discover all the new files you've just added. Then
>> scroll to each one, press the "Menu" key (M, usually) and choose
>> "Search IMDB" to get all the metadata for the video.
>
>
> It doesn't seem that MythVideo can handle whole DVDs in the video  
> dir.  At least when I copied one over and pulled up the Video Manager  
> it listed each file in the VIDEO_TS directory individually.  None of  
> them were playable either.
>
> I hunted down the info needed to get the transcode daemon running and  
> ripped a small title of a DVD at "perfect" quality.  I ended up with  
> a single .vob file, went to Video Manager to get it recognize,  
> browsed over to MythVideo and ... nothing, doesn't play.
>
> I must be missing something.
>
Check your player command-line for the .VOB extension and make sure it 
works outside of Myth since that's really what is happening (just 
launching an external viewer).

Kevin