[mythtv-users] Video insertion question

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/04/2007 03:18 PM, Rich West wrote:
> I have a simple question (I think), and I don't know if there is a 
> "proper" method here...
>
> I've inserted a bunch of shows from some season-dvd's we have, breaking 
> them up in to their individual (in order) episodes.  Right now, I've 
> been putting them within MythVideo, but it really makes the "Video 
> Manager" look like a total disaster, not to mention that it takes quite 
> a long time to browse through the "Video Manager" to get to a show and 
> add an image (or something).
>
> Since these originally came from the TV (well, we bought the discs, but 
> they were originally aired on TV), I thought it might make sense to 
> insert them into the "Recordings" area.  However, this would require me 
> to expand the storage being used for "recordings" (I have recordings 
> local to the mythtv backend and videos NFS mounted to the clients 
> (autofs) from another server) filesystem (aka: either replace the disk 
> with a larger one, add another disk and use LVM to expand across to it, 
> or move up to SVN and do storage groups (yikes!)).
>   

In 0.21 (or current SVN head--usual disclaimers, sign up for--/and/ 
read--the -dev and -commits lists...), you'll be able to use storage 
groups to put them in different directories (even different 
network-mounted disks).

Mike