[mythtv-users] Adding to Media Library manually?

[Kevin Kuphal]

David Blevins wrote:

>
> On Sep 25, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>
>
> Aha.  Is there any support for filling that info in automatically or  
> is it pretty standard to have to manually fill in the command line  
> arg to play each thing in the video manager's list?

You need to configure the player for each particular extension type you 
want to play.  You can also optionally have a special command-line for 
each video if you have a need for it.

Kevin