[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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