[mythtv-users] scan for changes

[Tom Lichti]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Anthony Giggins
<seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 27 March 2012 06:33, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On 3/26/2012 16:11, Tom Lichti wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Although through some testing by dumping the database,
>> >> create a recording through the frontend, stop recording, dump the
>> >> database again and compare the difference, I only see recorded being
>> >> hit, not sure what the other 11 tables are, but I'll take a look at
>> >> MiroBridge.
>> >
>> >
>> > To get something to show up, the `recorded` table is really the only one
>> > you
>> > actually need.  To behave properly, you need to add matching entries to
>> > `recordedprogram` and `oldrecorded`.  You also need to add a dummy
>> > `videosource` and `channel` to map the recording to.  You need to
>> > populate
>> > seek data in `recordedseek`, and besides the skiplist and cutlist, there
>> > are
>> > a handful of additional bits of information stored in `recordedmarkup`.
>> >  Those seven should be considered required.
>> >
>> > I was adding in `capturecard` and `cardinput`, but you only need the
>> > channel, not something to record it with.  Any optional cast information
>> > would be in `people` and `recordedcredits`.  Any banners or backdrops
>> > would
>> > be stored in `recordedartwork`.  Content ratings would get stored in
>> > `recordedrating`, although that and the previous three should be handled
>> > by
>> > the metadata importer.  Depending on how well integrated you want to
>> > make
>> > it, you could add entries to `channelgroup`, `channelgroupnames`, and
>> > `playgroup`.
>>
>> Ah, ok, I see what you mean. I am using existing channels, the rest I
>> don't care about, although I am adding entries to recordedartwork
>> where available, and the internal myth player works fine without a
>> seektable and the other bits. I was concerned that I was missing
>> something really important, but for my use case, this works. I just
>> want to make the AMCD process a little more robust.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tom
>>
>
> Mythmediamonitor also works well to add videos into recordings, may or may
> not be compatible with 0.25
>
> http://nowsci.com/mythmediamonitor/

I had actually tried it before and wasn't satisfied with the results.
My script works better for me, but it could use some work.

Tom