[mythtv-users] home videos

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Sat Oct 8 03:07:19 UTC 2011


On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 01:58:15PM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> The recent question about "school me on playing vids in myth"
> reminded me of a question I've had for some time; (how) do people
> use myth to view home-generated video, from a video camera etc.?
> 
> There's been relatively little discussion of this [1], I'd like to put together
> some suggestions as an addition to the wiki page [2].
> 
> Just off the cuff, it seems like the workflow would be
>  * (one-time) set up video storage groups (a separate group?)

   I just have places designated for either home video or things otherwise
collected by people in the household. Format support in MythTV is pretty
comprehensive and anything not supported by the Internal player is likely
supported by mplayer.

[deletia]

   Point MythTV to directory
   Tell MythTV to scan the content
   Done


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