[mythtv-users] Merging two master backends

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 10/02/2010 01:55 PM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 12:50:45PM -0400, Michael T. Dean
>>> Recovering recordings is not a simple process, and there is a lot
>>> of data you need to produce to do it properly.
>> Therefore, the proper approach is to stick the recordings from the
>> "other" backend into MythVideo.
> Wouldn't that lead to loss of all of their metadata?

Just have MythVideo look up metadata for them.  Use the dump of the 
database to name the files correctly ( 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing ), and hit W on the 
recording in MythVideo to look up metadata.  See also 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo .

Mike