[mythtv-users] Splitting movies from TV series

[Andrew Leech]

On 20/11/2013 2:18 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> For years I had a single videos folder, containing subfolders like
> Actions, Romance, Family, Cartoons and ... TV
>
> And the videos storage group was linked to that single folder.
>
> the actual directory structure actually being:
> /data/videos
> /data/recordings
> /data/images
> /data/music
> /data/photos
>
> This suited me fine.
>
> I want to change it however so the actual directory structure is like so:
> /data/videos/movies
> /data/videos/TV
> /data/videos/recordings
> /data/images
> /data/music
> /data/photos
>
> (reason for this is that I'm migrating all my files to a ZFS NAS
> server which will be mounted via NFS)
>
> So when I go into the mythvideo I get to choose immediately between
> movies and TV
>
> So I modified the videos storage group so it would have a link to
> /data/videos/movies and to /data/videos/TV
>
> Problem with this setup is that the content of TV and movies are
> merged into a single content, which makes it very impractical to
> navigate.
>
> Obviously, I could have changed my SG to point to /data/videos itself;
> but then it shows the "recording" folder which I don't want to see
> there.
>
> So is there a way to have the directory structure describe above, that
> will present me separately the TV and movie folder?
>
> Thanks
> JY
>
I have a feeling there's a way to change this in the theme files or 
frontend settings.
I say this because I've got two frontends at home, the main lounge 
(which is combined frontend + backend) and bedroom one, both with 
completely different (self modified) themes.

I've got all my saved tv shows and movies scattered and mixed in a few 
different video folders (on different drives) that are all in the 
storage group.

On the lounge frontend, the videos screen does separate tv shows and 
movies automatically at the top root of the browser (I can't remember 
which mode my video screen is set to, list or browse etc).
This is dependent on the tv shows being organised into the folder 
structure mythtv expects as per 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing

On bedroom one however they are mixed together in one list, although tv 
shows all appear to be a the top of the list (might be just that folders 
are at the top).

I've been meaning to consolidate the two themes and get the video page 
working consistently, I'll look into that hopefully tonight and get back 
to you.

Cheers,
Andrew