[mythtv-users] Should Videos be considered Recorded?

[Frank Feuerbacher]

On 5/19/2013 10:24 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/19/2013 10:17 PM, Frank Feuerbacher wrote:
>> I have pointed  my mythtv Videos to my XBMC movies in the hope that I 
>> could easily see what movies I have already recorded in the mythweb 
>> movie listings. But, this does not appear to be the case. Can someone 
>> confirm this? Is there a way to accomplish what I am after?
>>
>> I can see the XBMC movies in mythtv. I initiated a scan of them to 
>> get the metadata. I saw the metadata for some files, but had to 
>> manually initiate fetching for individual movies with the keyboard 
>> shortcut "w" (perhaps I did not wait long enough for the scan to 
>> occur). Anyway, I can confirm that the movie "You Can't Take it With 
>> You" has it's metadata downloaded into Mythtv, but Mythtweb does not 
>> indicate that it has already been recorded when I look at the TCM 
>> schedule.
>
> Unfortunately the metadata you get for your movies is different from 
> the program listings data you get for TV, so it's very difficult to 
> match up videos with broadcast movies in anything more than a naive 
> title (and possibly subtitle) type comparison. Even with TV recording 
> history, we re-record episodes because of similarly non-exact 
> matches.  This, however, has the advantage that you end up recording 
> something you don't need, after which you can delete it without 
> watching (and get an exact match for future airings that have 
> similarly broken program data).
>
> So, the best you can do is tell MythTV you already recorded those 
> movies.  The simplest way to do so is to find the movies in the 
> Upcoming Recordings page of MythWeb and click on "Never record." That 
> puts the movie into MythTV's recording history--complete with its 
> unique program identifier--and tells it not to record, as if you had 
> recorded the episode.
>
I'm guessing that there is no tool to let me mark a list of movies as 
"never record" from a script.