[mythtv-users] Mythvideo gallery - movies in several folders

[Robert McNamara]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Tom Runner <tomj.runner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Brian Phillips <brian.phillips at gmx.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Tom Runner wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I'm organizing my movies by folder, something like "kids",
>> > "thriller", "Mum", "cartoons",... and viewing them with gallery view
>> > by folder.
>> >
>> > But the family would like to have some movies in several folders + a
>> > "All" folder.
>> >
>> > I read somewhere, that I should normally be able to manage that by
>> > using symlinks. But when I create symlinks of some movies into the
>> > "all" folder, the next scan remove the movies from the source folder
>> > and put them in the "all" one. So I don't have the movies in the 2
>> > folders. The next can "move" back the movies from the all to the
>> > source folder. Example:
>> > Folder Thriller:
>> > -> movie 1
>> > -> movie 2
>> >
>> > Folder All:
>> > ->Symlink movie 1
>> > ->Symlink movie 2
>> >
>> > Gallery view by folder shows 2 movies in the thriller folder before
>> > scan, 0 in the all folder After the first scan, Thriller folder shows
>> > 0, All shows 2 Next can, Thriller folder 2, All shows 0 And so on.
>> >
>> > Any idea on how I can have the movies showing in the 2 folders ? Do I
>> > miss an option somewhere ?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>
>> Have you tried a hard link (rather than symbolic)?
>
> Same result :)

MythVideo hashes all videos to support retaining metadata when the
file is renamed, moved, migrated to storage groups, etc.  Necessarily,
this means that each file will have one metadata record.  Multiple
identical files by different names or locations is unsupported.  You
may find one of the metadata browse modes to your liking, as several
of them have the various genres or categories, and an "all" such that
it achieves a similar effect to what you are looking for.

INFO->Browse By...->etc.

Robert