[mythtv-users] Recording titles via UPnP

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Fri Aug 11 18:55:57 UTC 2017


On 11/08/17 18:32, Dave Ulrick wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2017, John Pilkington wrote:
> 
>> On 11/08/17 14:03, Dave Ulrick wrote:
>>>  I have a couple of Blu-Ray players that recognize my MythTV 0.28 
>>> backend
>>>  via UPnP. Folders are presented which list my recordings. However, the
>>>  titles aren't very user-friendly. The title itself is shown but no 
>>> other
>>>  identifying information such as subtitle is shown. For instance, if 
>>> I have
>>>  multiple recordings of series XYZ, I see:
>>>
>>>  XYZ
>>>  XYZ
>>>  XYZ
>>>  XYZ
>>>  ...
>>>
>>>  I'd rather see:
>>>
>>>  XYZ -- The Beginning
>>>  XYZ -- More Adventures
>>>  XYZ -- Here We Go Again
>>>
>>>  and so forth.
>>>
>>>  Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>  Thanks,
>>>  Dave
>>
>> Use mythlink  - see immediately preceding posts.  Put its results 
>> folder in your videos directory and scan for new videos.  Or you can 
>> copy just a few links instead.  And have an empty folder that you can 
>> link in as an alternative videos source so that you can reset things 
>> easily.  See yesterday's posts!
> 
> I'm somewhat familiar with mythlink. In fact, I have a cron job set up 
> to run it several times a day.
> 
> Just now I symlinked my Links directory into the Video directory then 
> ran a video scan. This rendered mythbackend unresponsive (perhaps 
> because I have hundreds of recorded episodes) so I backed out this 
> change. I also tried symlinking Links into the Recordings directory but 
> my UPnP client doesn't see a Links folder inside Recordings.

For proof of concept you could try it with a subset of your links 
directory.  It's going to create a thumbnail for every recording there, 
and display in a long, long list...
>   
> In the past, I played around with Serviio, a UPnP server. I was able to 
> get it to serve my MythTV Links directory so that my UPnP clients would 
> see it but it seemed to me that Serviio was a bit of a resource hog so I 
> stopped running it. I suppose I could try it once more.
> 
> Dave



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