[mythtv-users] Mythvideo gallery - movies in several folders

[Tom Runner]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Tom Runner <tomj.runner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Brian Phillips <brian.phillips at gmx.net>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Tom Runner wrote:
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > I'm organizing my movies by folder, something like "kids",
> >> > "thriller", "Mum", "cartoons",... and viewing them with gallery view
> >> > by folder.
> >> >
> >> > But the family would like to have some movies in several folders + a
> >> > "All" folder.
> >> >
> >> > I read somewhere, that I should normally be able to manage that by
> >> > using symlinks. But when I create symlinks of some movies into the
> >> > "all" folder, the next scan remove the movies from the source folder
> >> > and put them in the "all" one. So I don't have the movies in the 2
> >> > folders. The next can "move" back the movies from the all to the
> >> > source folder. Example:
> >> > Folder Thriller:
> >> > -> movie 1
> >> > -> movie 2
> >> >
> >> > Folder All:
> >> > ->Symlink movie 1
> >> > ->Symlink movie 2
> >> >
> >> > Gallery view by folder shows 2 movies in the thriller folder before
> >> > scan, 0 in the all folder After the first scan, Thriller folder shows
> >> > 0, All shows 2 Next can, Thriller folder 2, All shows 0 And so on.
> >> >
> >> > Any idea on how I can have the movies showing in the 2 folders ? Do I
> >> > miss an option somewhere ?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >>
> >> Have you tried a hard link (rather than symbolic)?
> >
> > Same result :)
>
> MythVideo hashes all videos to support retaining metadata when the
> file is renamed, moved, migrated to storage groups, etc.  Necessarily,
> this means that each file will have one metadata record.  Multiple
> identical files by different names or locations is unsupported.  You
> may find one of the metadata browse modes to your liking, as several
> of them have the various genres or categories, and an "all" such that
> it achieves a similar effect to what you are looking for.
>
> INFO->Browse By...->etc.
>
> Well I tried them all. Category might have been one (As I can create my
Category), but the main issue is that you cannot control the picture of the
folder. I use the picutre to clearly announce what is in the folder, having
the title of the folder on the picture itself.

We'll see over time, if they get used to it.

Thanks for the clarification anyway.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20110328/67beed08/attachment.html