Hi,

This is properly a very dummy question, but...

How can I move a movie, that I have recorded from the television, to the mythtv/MythVideo directory so it will be available in the MythVideo application? I would like to know how I could do this using the common menu's in MythTV.

I can not find it anywhere in the manuals or forums, so I starting to think that this is not possible using common Mythtv menu's. I hope I am wrong, because this feels for me like a common feature.

When I know how to do this, I could retrieve information from IMDB, store all the movies on one place etc.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Victor

I don't think you can do it from the menu but I could be wrong.

I have only done this twice but have never searched imdb after. I don't remember if it copied metadata with the copy process either.

What I have done:
alt-x (to get console window)

cd /myth/pretty

ls (to view directory, if you have alot of shows, then "ls |more" to page it)

cp "show you want...no qoutes" /myth/video
(if you don't want to type the whole file name, hit the "tab" key and it will fill in the rest of the filename for you)

when finished copying, go into video manager and rescan.

Esherm,

Thanks for your answer.

This sounds like it is easy to create an extra menu option with an script by myself to create this feature.

I don't mind to dig into this, but can someone give me a hint how I should do that? (I am a newby ...)

A script might not be tough to write to copy a file from tv to video. The tough part will be the scripts usage model. allowing the user to select the particular file to move. were you planning on using the remote for this?

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This would be a cool feature.

khrusher,

This is what I thought:
- In your recorded shows you go to the movie you want to copy to the MythVideo directory
- Then press a button (on keyboard or remote control)
- File is moved to the /myth/MythVideo directory

This should work I think? Or do I forget something?

It would probably be good to add to the existing menu that shows things like delete, job options, play from... etc,.
Just another entry on that menu, and there shouldn't be any more input needed.

that would work perfectly, but that is more of a mythtv customization. When you mentioned a 'script' to do it, i though you were referring to a shell script that was tied to a menu button. i couldnt imagine the interface.

But your scheme would work, i just dont think I would call it easy "extra menu option with an script "

Might be a good small project to get into if you were intrested in getting into the mythTv guts.

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Hi,

If you just do an ls on /myth/pretty you will obtain the "pretty name" only and if you do a copy there will most likely be a 47byte file in your video directory.

I use ls -al /myth/pretty to obtain the pretty name and also the real mpg that it points toward.

Then you can (sample) cp /myth/tv/2010_20060412231002_20060412232400.nuv /myth/video/News_at_11pm-Apr12_2006_2329.mpg (all one line)
also:
cp /myth/tv/2010_20060412231002_20060412232400.nuv.png /myth/video/.covers/News.png (all one line)
You have to shorten the name or it won't show up when you search for the cover image as it has a length limit. I don't know what the limit is but the pretty name excedes it.

Now you can put a cover image to your save video and edit the information through mythweb.

Do not mv it, delete it through the menus / mythweb.

As a tip, if you plan to upgrade to a version from the A series (.nuv) to a more recent flavor B,C,D,E series (.mpg), do a
ls -al /myth/pretty > /myth/video/pretty_names.txt
Now when you up grade, you can save those recordings that you forgot to move earlier as you have the needed information.

Mike

cp -H will follow the symlink in the /myth/pretty folder and give you a full copy.

cp -H /myth/pretty/fancyname.nuv /myth/video

cheers

NS