Create a folder and manually assign recordings to it?

[marct]

OK, I did some searching and I do not see that this is possible. I would really like to create a folder for movies and be able to assign the movies to that folder.

I am zippered, and have tivowebplus installed, but do not frequently use it.

Actually, this is all to keep the wife happy.

Thanks.

[rbautch]

I've done this by transferring shows with Tivoserver and it works well. Assuming the shows you want to group are already on the Tivo, here is the process.

1. Record a few episodes of a show you wouldn't normally watch. Has to be an episodic series.
2. Go into tivowebplus/user interface/now showing, and hover your mouse over the recording to get the fsid of the series from the lower left corner of the screen..
3. Run a script (can be found on DDB) that associates a given show title (like "Russ' Movies") with that new FSID.
4. Run another script (can be found on DDB) that actually changes the folder name to whatever you want).
5. Extract the xml file from one of the shows recorded in step 1 with mfs_ftp. Edit the show title to include the new series title ("Russ' Movies"). You can use this same xml file for multiple shows, but you'll also have to edit the episode number.
6. Extract the actual show you want to group into the folder and change the name of the file to match the xml file (i.e. movie.ty and movie.ty.xml). Then upload the show with Tivoserver.

[marct]

Thanks for that. Seems the long way around the block, but solves the problem. Maybe I should just run a virtual server with Tivoserver on it just for movies.

[Redux]

Originally Posted by marct

Thanks for that. Seems the long way around the block, but solves the problem. Maybe I should just run a virtual server with Tivoserver on it just for movies.

Many users think of their tivos as "gathering" and "viewing" stations. The "storage" component of the system is the computer server running tivoserver. The tivo itself stays relatively empty, with new shows there only briefly until going to the server. Shows are "watched" from the server, the copy that was transferring as watched is then immediately deleted from the tivo.

So on the storage side you have all the normal tools you're used to: backup, filenames and folders defined as you want them, aliases, etc.

[cheer]

Originally Posted by Redux

Many users think of their tivos as "gathering" and "viewing" stations. The "storage" component of the system is the computer server running tivoserver. The tivo itself stays relatively empty, with new shows there only briefly until going to the server. Shows are "watched" from the server, the copy that was transferring as watched is then immediately deleted from the tivo.

Bingo. I do exactly this -- in fact, I've gone so far as to downgrade hard drives in some of my Tivos. (One DTivo, which is not hooked to the sat and just used as a MRV station, is running on the 8gb HD I pulled out of an Xbox!) The drives get pooled into a couple of servers that I use for serving up content. Thus, the content is viewable from any Tivo in the house, along with PCs, hacked Xboxen, and whatever else.

[rbautch]

Originally Posted by cheer

Bingo. I do exactly this -- in fact, I've gone so far as to downgrade hard drives in some of my Tivos. (One DTivo, which is not hooked to the sat and just used as a MRV station, is running on the 8gb HD I pulled out of an Xbox!) The drives get pooled into a couple of servers that I use for serving up content. Thus, the content is viewable from any Tivo in the house, along with PCs, hacked Xboxen, and whatever else.

I just went the opposite way. There are a few series shows that I had on my RAID server that got watched on one TV and one TV only. I decided to copy all the shows to the Tivo itself, just so I could have instant access to the entire show. This got me experimenting with folders, etc. Other shows, like movies, I found best to leave on the server so they could be accessed from any one of my many Tivos (and hopefully the HR10-250 soon ). Using your computer as a storage device also has the added benefit of making them available for remote streaming apps like Orb.