[mythtv-users] Moving Recordings to mythvideo

jdoe mythtv at jd67.de
Sun Dec 2 13:02:19 UTC 2012


Thx,

this gives me a good feeling. Start moving now ...

Jan
Am 01.12.2012 13:40, schrieb Michael T. Dean:
> On 12/01/2012 06:33 AM, jdoe wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> while I am running mythtv nearly 10 Years, I have now a big 
>> collection of recordings (~2000 movies and series-episodes). In 
>> general the navigation within the recordings becomes a little bit 
>> unclear. OK - the new season/epsiode handling of series was a big 
>> step forward and collecting all series within a recording-group makes 
>> live easier.
>> But the navigation within the movies is a little bit painful. Having 
>> round about 1000 Movies sorted by recording-time makes live not easy. 
>> The only change to find a recording is to search within the 
>> alphabetic ordered view on left side. But thats all :-(
>> Maybe in the future some search filters will available like find all 
>> recording with "Alien" in the title ... but not for now.
>>
>> Mythvideo has the filter! :-)
>>
>> So i plan to move all my recordings (only the nice ones, cutted and 
>> transcoded) into mythvideo. Moving and renaming the files isn't a big 
>> thing, because I have written a 
>> sql-query-rename-copy-move-bla-bla-shell-script that will do the job 
>> for me.
>>
>> So my questions:
>> Is it a good idea moving recording into mythvideo in my situation
>
> IMHO,  Video Library (formerly known as MythVideo) is the place for 
> archiving large collections of video--as you've seen, its UI is much 
> more appropriate and makes navigation and finding videos easier (you 
> can organize videos however you like using a hierarchical 
> organization--using directories).  Any video that you plan to keep 
> should be moved to Video Library, and videos may be moved even 
> "temporarily" to reduce clutter in Watch Recordings (if you have 2000 
> videos, it's not like you'll watch and delete them all tomorrow).
>
> I've written several treatises on why this approach is best.  Feel 
> free to read for more reasons why you /should/ be moving recordings to 
> Video Library (exactly as you plan to):
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/510330#510330
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/510542#510542
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/519758#519758
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/519996#519996
>
>> and did I have the same stable playback comfort I am used to?
>
> Yes.
>
>>
>> Do I need to build seek tables for all recording?
>
> Probably not, but a proper script can move the existing ones for you.  
> (See below.)
>
>> Did the upnp/dlna works on mythvideo within storage groups?
>
> Yes.
>
>>
>> I will be happy for any advise or suggestion
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythvidexport.py
>
> I think it may need a newer version for current MythTV.  Raymond 
> Wagner may be able to help.
>
> Mike
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