[mythtv-users] Plex integration.

[Mike Perkins]

On 18/03/2021 03:36, myth tv via mythtv-users wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:55 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:34 PM myth tv via mythtv-users <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is the main part of the scripts:
>>>
>>> record_finish.sh
>>> sleep 10
>>> /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/nice -n 19
>>> /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/user_jobs/mythlink.pl
>>> --destination /tv/show_names/ --filename $1 --underscores --maxlength
>>> 120 --format "%U/%T/%Y-%m-%d %S S%ssE%ep"
>>> sleep 2
>>> /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/nice -n 19
>>> /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/user_jobs/mythlink.pl
>>> --destination /tv/show_names-movies/ --filename $1 --maxlength 120
>>> --format "%U/%T/%T - %Y-%m-%d (%oY) %S"
>>
>>
>> How does it differentiate between a TV show or a movie? Or does it just mangle one or the other so it doesn't work in Plex?
>>
> 
> I do two things to differentiate TV Shows and Movies.
> 
> 1. Create different two directory structures and filenames because
> Plex needs different structures for TV and Movies.
> 2. I use %U to separate out which mythtv programs are Movies and which
> are TV Shows.  This means using different recording groups for TV and
> Movies when setting up a recording rule.
> 
> Then in Plex I point to the TV show recording groups in the first
> mythlink directory structure when adding TV shows to the Plex library.
> Then I point to the Movies recording groups in the second mythlink
> directory structure for the Plex Movies library.
> 
Yeah, but... your script above places links in /both/ Movies and TV directories at the end of every 
program.

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Mike Perkins