[mythtv-users] Is Mirobridge still the best way to import recordings from RSS?
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Tue Dec 4 18:31:56 UTC 2012
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 12:12 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 11:52 AM, Matt Emmott wrote:
> > I've built a combined FE/BE on a laptop, and was planning on syncing
> > some shows recorded on my home MythTV system. The goal is to have
> > those shows show up in the 'Watch Recordings' section of the laptop,
> > as if they had been recorded via a tuner.
> >
> > My plan is to install MythExport on the home system and run UserJobs
> > to export certain scheduled recordings to RSS feeds. Then I would use
> > Mirobridge on the laptop to subscribe to these feeds and auto-import
> > them as the feed is populated. Is Mirobridge still the best way to do
> > something like this, or is there similar functionality in
> > MythNetVision (or another plugin I'm not aware of)?
>
> IMHO, Video Library is the best way to import any kind of
> not-recorded-by-this-particular-MythTV-system video into MythTV...
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/534286#534286
>
> In summary, it's easier to organize (it's organized by you), you can
> name the videos anything (i.e. to include metadata which would allow you
> to identify them even in the loss of a MythTV database), and it's /much/
> better for filtering/sorting/searching/navigating. Watch Recordings is
> a simple flat view of the database contents that can only be filtered by
> recording group or category.
>
> IMHO, sticking videos into Watch Recordings is akin to sending yourself
> e-mail messages to store large files... It's just not designed for that
> type of use.
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
Not disagreeing with the above that "Videos" is a better destination..
mytharchive (archive to file) is an excellent way to move a number of
recordings to another box, you don't lose any info (metadata/seektable
etc). You can export en masse.
The downsides:
- import from archives only possible one at at time
- "Videos" does not support mytharchive format.
- have to import into "recordings"
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