[mythtv-users] Adding to Media Library manually?

[David Blevins]

On Sep 23, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Robert Johnston wrote:

> On 23/09/05, David Blevins <david.blevins at visi.com> wrote:
>
>> So I'm having a heck of a time ripping with MythDVD.  No worries as I
>> really don't care to if I can avoid it.  I have a ton of dvds already
>> ripped and burnt and simply want to copy a few of them to disk now
>> and then for easy access via the Media Library.  Not afraid of
>> showing stuff in the mythconverg db via perl fun to do this.
>>
>> Any pointers?
>>
>
> Copy the files into the Video folder (That MythVideo is looking at),
> and go into "Setup -> Video Manager" on the Frontend, which will
> automatically discover all the new files you've just added. Then
> scroll to each one, press the "Menu" key (M, usually) and choose
> "Search IMDB" to get all the metadata for the video.

It doesn't seem that MythVideo can handle whole DVDs in the video  
dir.  At least when I copied one over and pulled up the Video Manager  
it listed each file in the VIDEO_TS directory individually.  None of  
them were playable either.

I hunted down the info needed to get the transcode daemon running and  
ripped a small title of a DVD at "perfect" quality.  I ended up with  
a single .vob file, went to Video Manager to get it recognize,  
browsed over to MythVideo and ... nothing, doesn't play.

I must be missing something.

-David