I have been using the popular open source multimedia programme called mythtv for a while now. Apart from recording my favourite TV shows, I also utilise the various modules like mythmusic, mythnews, mythvideo and mythweb. Though you can use mythvideo to view videos which are not tv recordings, there are no specific modules which can import a show into mythtv.
But wait, just when you think its not possible to import a show into the mythtv recordings, there is a way to do so. There is a perl script called “myth.rebuilddatabase.pl” which comes with the mythtv-doc package of mythtv. Usually the “myth.rebuilddatabase.pl” script resides at “/usr/share/doc/packages/mythtv-doc/contrib/” folder. Else, If you are on an rpm based system you can look for its path with the following command:
rpm -qal "myth*" | grep "\.pl"
This should return all the available perl scripts which are distributed with mythtv. Now to use the script, we need make a copy of the script to your home folder and configure it. Edit the file and update the relevant mysql mythtv database connection details. Now copy the tv show files which you want to import, into your mythtv recordings folder.
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