Recording movies / TV to XBMC directory stucture

[spinnaker]

I have my XBMC library directory structure setup as follows:

videos
Movies
TV Shows


Is there a way to get NextPVR to record Movies in the Movies directory and TV Shows in TV Shows? If so how?

[sub]

There is nothing built in to do this for you.

I'm not that familiar with XBMC/Kodi, but if you can point those directories at your NextPVR recording directory, I'm guessing they'll probably show up?

[spinnaker]

Sure I can point XBMC to anywhere. The problem is XMBC knows movies because it is in one directory and tv shows because they are in another directory.

I really have the same issue I am trying to solve in NextPVR but with MCEBuddy used with WMC. Notes buddy strips commercials and converts the files to MP4 files.

Notesbuddy can put the files in different directories but I never got around to implementing it.

Somehow notesbuddy knows iif it is a movie or tvshow. Not sure if it checks imdb or waht it does to figure it out.


It would be a nice feature to have in NextPVR.

I really don't record that many movies so what I do is manually copy movies to the right directory. So no reason I can't continue the practice.

[sub]

NextPVR knows if you're recording a movie, but it doesn't do anything differently because of it.

There is nothing to stop you setting up two recording directories, 'movies' and 'shows', and scheduling movies to record to the 'movies' directory, and have everything else defaulting to 'shows'.

[spiinnaker]

NextPVR knows if you're recording a movie, but it doesn't do anything differently because of it.

There is nothing to stop you setting up two recording directories, 'movies' and 'shows', and scheduling movies to record to the 'movies' directory, and have everything else defaulting to 'shows'.

Ah got it. I am the one that decides where it goes. Just checked that feature out and it is kind of nice.

I assume it would mean I can not use the default to most space feature? Nice feature. I think a nice enhancement would be to exclude a directory from that search.

[sub]

I assume it would mean I can not use the default to most space feature?

Correct - because it sounds like Kodi is needing you to have them stored in specific directories.

[BrettB]

I assume it would mean I can not use the default to most space feature? Nice feature. I think a nice enhancement would be to exclude a directory from that search.

Correct - because it sounds like Kodi is needing you to have them stored in specific directories.

The "default to most space directory" feature is only applied if the recording is set use the "Default" directory. So, say, you setup all movies to go to a "Movies" directory, and left all TV shows set to "Default", and had "TV1", "TV2", "TV3", etc. directories setup--then all movies would go to the correct "Movies" directory regardless of available disk space in any of the directories. However, with the current scheme, recordings set to go to "Default" would get put in the "Movies" directory if it had the most available space. (You used to be able to get around this by defining the "Movies" directory with a UNC path rather than a drive letter and it was excluded from the most available space scan. But the latest version of NextPVR changed it so that UNC paths to NAS drives would be available.)

I agree that it would be most ideal if the Recording Directories listing included an individual flag for each directory to include/exclude from the "Most Available Space" directory pool. Maybe sub will add that for the next release? :-)

[spiinnaker]

The "default to most space directory" feature is only applied if the recording is set use the "Default" directory. So, say, you setup all movies to go to a "Movies" directory, and left all TV shows set to "Default", and had "TV1", "TV2", "TV3", etc. directories setup--then all movies would go to the correct "Movies" directory regardless of available disk space in any of the directories. However, with the current scheme, recordings set to go to "Default" would get put in the "Movies" directory if it had the most available space. (You used to be able to get around this by defining the "Movies" directory with a UNC path rather than a drive letter and it was excluded from the most available space scan. But the latest version of NextPVR changed it so that UNC paths to NAS drives would be available.)

I agree that it would be most ideal if the Recording Directories listing included an individual flag for each directory to include/exclude from the "Most Available Space" directory pool. Maybe sub will add that for the next release? :-)

Yeah but TV Shows could go to the Movie directory if the feature is used.

[Rod Hutchinson]

Not sure if I am in the correct Topic.

I run NextPVR and Kodi on Linux Mint 21.3.
I need to re-install Linux Mint (it's crashed)
I can boot in recovery mode.

Can I recover recorded movies and what directory might I find them?

[mvallevand]

Clearly this is not the correct topic (an almost 8 year thread on old version of NextPVR before a Linux version or Kodi existed). If you have even the smalles doubt if the topic is valid open a new one.

Recording can be recovered if you can access the ts files. The default on Linux is /home/userid/recordings we would have no way of knowing what you configured other than that. If you have enabled xml file creation even better, otherwise see if you can find /var/opt/nextpvr/npvr.db3 and /var/opt/nextpvr/recordings-backup.xml

Martin