> I was thinking along these lines before Christmas when I > wanted to temporarily add an extra disk for Christmas films > to my server. > I added a bit of code to Myth to allow me to do this, a bit of a hack. > > This added the Global preference: "VideoDirs" beneath the > "RecordFilePrefix" option. This took a ":" separated list of dirs. > This only worked for playback and you had to manually copy > files to these dirs. Also the expire system did not work here. > > Some issues: > 1. Would one directory be the master where files videos are stored > and the other ones extra ones or should all dirs be > equally used wherever space is available ? > 2. If the directories are considered "extra" dirs MythTv > could move all videos that are not marked to expire to these > directories in the background automatically. > > It didn't look like to much work to add although there were > quite a few places whene "RecordFilePrefix" was used.
I've been considering this recently too but had thought of a different approach. I was thinking about extending the recording groups functionality to allow you to specify that a certain recording group would record to a certain directory. Then I could have a recording group for members of the family with their own recording group and their own disk-space which they could manage themselves. (to an extent!) It's a step further towards having multi-user functionality which I think would be a v. useful feature Mark
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