and I'm a complete idiot when it comes to coding anything. What I would like are 3 different areas for media library: DVD's (dvd's stored on my computer), Movies (such as divx, xvid, etc) and XXX movies.

I have really no idea how I would make such changes to a theme, so I would be willing to pay someone for their time to do some custom work. Is anyone interested?

Thanks!

just set up three dirs in your /myth/video dir. When you go into mythvideo they will all show up as different dirs. Just change the file types you want to display in the settings of mythvideo to show all your file types if they are not already there.

Where is my /myth/video directory? Is that the directory I setup in the frontend, under general settings -> Directory that holds videos?

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Oh, I see what you mean, and if I understand it, that wont work. Im talking about literally hundreds of movies. For example:

I have:

/movies/dvd/and 30 sub directories here, each containing a movie
/movies/divx/and 70 sub directories here, each with its own movie
/movies/xxx/ and 100 directories and sub directories with 1, 10, or 50 movies in each directory.

The file types will all be mixed together, as they are the 90% the same: .avi, mpg, iso, and .img

whats wrong with just moving it all to:

/myth/video/dvd
/myth/video/divx
/myth/video/xxx

??

then in the video browser you would have 3 top level areas as you wanted...

hmm... maybe I dont understand. I specified my video directory in Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> Media Settings -> Video Settings -> General Settings -> "Directory that holds videos: /capture/DVDr"

/capture/DVDr is where my dvd backups are now.

How would I specify 3 different directories?

I think myth will look in subdirectories, so in mad_paddler's example, you would just specify /myth/video (the default location for KnoppMyth).

The only way that would work is if you do the "list" view, which isnt very pretty, it doesnt hide the file names of the movie which a lot of times dont match very well the actual title of the movie, and is less wife-friendly.

Kind of had to do it the hard way.

I set up 4 categories, DVD, Movies, TV, and XXX

I then ran sql queries to change the metadata field "category" based on what directory it was in, like this:

UPDATE `videometadata` SET category=1
WHERE `filename` LIKE CONVERT( _utf8 '%/capture/video/XXX%' USING latin1 )

UPDATE `videometadata` SET category=2
WHERE `filename` LIKE CONVERT( _utf8 '%/capture/video/DVDr%' USING latin1 )

Damn you've got a lot of porn.

Sorry had to be said...

Well when he mentioned he was married, it all made sense to me.