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Piping mkv file help

Added by Lisa White over 4 years ago

Hello everyone and I hope all is well during this corona pandemic. I have been messing around with tvheadend and was wondering if I can pipe my local movies to play on tvheadend. All of my movie collections are stored on the same linux computer as tvheadend. Is there a way that I can pipe the mkv file to a mux so it will play through tvheaend?

Thanks
Lisa


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RE: Piping mkv file help - Added by Hiro Protagonist over 4 years ago

Lisa White wrote:

Thank you for all of your help. Adding the title would be appreciated. After reading your last post, I misunderstood the directions. I executed your script and it worked. Thank You! Thank You! and Thank You! The only downside is that the script will not work on tvheadend ver 4.3. I tried multiple times using 2 different computers and I keep getting the 401 unauth error upon execution.

Have you seen this thread? https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/41414

I'm wondering if the problems I had with using the API on a downloaded build were due to this - maybe it will help with your 4.3 setup?

RE: Piping mkv file help - Added by Lisa White over 4 years ago

Hiro Protagonist, I was wondering if you could help me with grouping my "FRIENDS" video collection. I just finished up ripping my owned blu ray collection and converted all files to mkv. I will try to explain what I did next.

My recording folder is under hts and I created another sub-folder called friends and then 10 other subfolders with each seasons name. For example: /home/hts/recordings/Friends/Friend.Season.1, /home/hts/recordings/Friends/Friend.Season.2 etc.) My series video files are numbered like this: (FRIENDS.S01E24.mkv etc.) for each season series sequence and displayed in the appropriate season sub-folder.

I executed your script and the Friends video files copied into tvheadend. They will play within tvheadend but there is some conflict with kodi. The files will play in kodi if they are in the main recording directory folder individually but will not display when placed in the correct sub-folder. It is difficult to find each seasons episodes when they are not grouped together. I did notice that the video files will be listed in the black information section within kodi when in the correct sub-folders but the play link is blank. I think I am missing something to get these video episodes grouped by the seasons. All files and folders are chmod and there is no problems reading/writing to them. I would like my friends videos to be categorized in sub-folder identically to how tvheadend creates them for a recorded series from livetv.

Can you give me some insight on how I can get the files in the folders to display as grouping?

Thanks Lisa

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