[mythtv-users] Video insertion question

[Rich West]

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On May 4, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Rich West wrote:
>
>   
>> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>     
>>> On May 4, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Rich West wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I have a simple question (I think), and I don't know if there is a
>>>> "proper" method here...
>>>>
>>>> I've inserted a bunch of shows from some season-dvd's we have,
>>>> breaking
>>>> them up in to their individual (in order) episodes.  Right now, I've
>>>> been putting them within MythVideo, but it really makes the "Video
>>>> Manager" look like a total disaster, not to mention that it takes
>>>> quite
>>>> a long time to browse through the "Video Manager" to get to a  
>>>> show and
>>>> add an image (or something).
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You might be better off organizing your videos into folders. TV
>>> Show>Episode or even TV Show>Season>Episode. Then you can enable
>>> directory browsing in MythVideo and your top level will be much
>>> easier to navigate.
>>>       
>> Actually, I left off the part that I do that already. :)  We've got  
>> the
>> Video area pretty well broken up in to genres (with one large group  
>> for
>> "Kids").
>>
>> When I referred to the "Video Manager", I mean the one under
>> "Utilities/Setup" -> "Video Manager", which brings up a list of the
>> videos on the system, allowing you to change the metadata, icons, etc.
>>
>> -Rich
>>     
>
> Oh, gotcha. I don't know if I would consider a long list of video  
> titles a "total disaster" worth spending much time organizing into  
> some tree-style structure or anything. Clearly none of the developers  
> have an issue with it either or there would already be a way to more  
> easily navigate the screen. :)

Well, maybe "total disaster" was a little over the top.. :)  I was just 
wondering what other ways there were to manage a large number of 
episodes rather than from the MythVideo Setup "Video Manager" 
interface..  For example, I now have a bunch of  "101 <episode name>" 
entries in the list when I bring up the "Video Manager"  (from 
Utilities/Setup).  But, I guess,  I would have the same situation if I 
had all of my DVD's loaded in to the system..

-Rich