[mythtv-users] Joined files in MythVideo

[Damian]

Sarah Hayes wrote:
> Damian wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a few films that are split into multiple files. I've asked about 
>> what to do with them before and was told about how to link them in the 
>> meta data and turn off the display setting for all but the first file. 
>> Linking the files with 'play file after' works fine (except for a few 
>> seconds pause between files .. anyway to get rid of that or am I being 
>> too fussy?), but I can't seem to stop multiple occurrences appearing in 
>> the selection gallery. All of my films which have 2 files are showing up 
>> twice in the gallery, even though I'm turning off the display setting. 
>> Any ideas what's going on? It no biggie, purely cosmetic, but it would 
>> be nice to sort it out.
>>
>>   
> avimerge -i <file1> <file2> <fileX> -o <file.avi>  will join them up, 
> assuming it's an AVI file and not say mkv, mpg or such.
> 
> In the video manager, turn off the browsable flag on the second part; 
> now and here's the trick.  In mythvideo, whilst viewing the media 
> library (i.e. looking for stuff to watch not adding new videos) pull up 
> the menu and select "Filter Display" go down to where it says 'browse' 
> and nudge it from 'All' to 'Yes', save that as the default.
> 
> That should remove all media flagged as 'do not show'.  You will, 
> however, need to filter the display for all the different views if you 
> use them.
> 
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Thanks for that Sarah. That's very helpful!

Damian