[mythtv-users] Adding to Media Library manually?

David Blevins david.blevins at visi.com
Sun Sep 25 23:27:57 UTC 2005


On Sep 25, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> David Blevins wrote:
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> Check your player command-line for the .VOB extension and make sure  
> it works outside of Myth since that's really what is happening  
> (just launching an external viewer).
>

Aha.  Is there any support for filling that info in automatically or  
is it pretty standard to have to manually fill in the command line  
arg to play each thing in the video manager's list?

-David




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