[mythtv-users] help moving recordings to video

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/17/2012 10:29 AM, mikkel wrote:
>
> So, you support the use of mythvidexport.py?
>

Yes. Very much so.  Raymond Wagner did a great job making that script, 
which is extremely useful.

And the use of Video Library for anything other than short-term storage 
of shows to be watched & deleted from Watch Recordings--since it has a 
much better UI for managing a lot of video (as you saw, scrolling 
through lots of recordings and finding what you want to watch is 
challenging in Watch Recordings).

A friend--who has been using MythTV with me since 0.13 days, so was used 
to having everything in Watch Recordings (MythVideo/Video Library was 
very different back then and didn't have a lot of its current 
capabilities)--asked me about how to import some of the kids' shows he 
had ripped from DVD to Watch Recordings, along with other episodes in 
the series he had recorded.  He really only wanted to group all the kids 
shows together into an area that made it easy for the kids to access.  I 
told him he was dong it wrong and should move the recordings to Video 
Library, along with the DVD rips, and helped him set it up using 
mythvidexport.py.  When done, he liked the setup much better than Watch 
Recordings.  And, he was even able to set up the default filter on the 
kids' MythTV frontend to show the Kids videos, only.  At that 
point--when a "real" user began singing its praises--I decided the 
approach was one more people should be using, and have been trying to 
show others how nice it can be ever since.  (Sometimes I'm not sure 
whether an approach makes sense to me, but would be difficult/nonsense 
for "real" users--as I'm more of a hacker who spends too much time on 
his systems than someone who just wants to use MythTV.)

Mike