{"id":569264,"date":"2010-05-18T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976697.post-1555115426177132113"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:58:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:58:57","slug":"moving-imported-video-into-tv-recordings-%e2%80%93-sagetv-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569264","title":{"rendered":"Moving Imported Video into TV Recordings \u2013 SageTV Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my many hang-ups with HTPCs is organization of the media.  In my perfect world, all TV shows up under TV regardless of whether it is something I recorded using my HTPC tuners, something I imported from a video file or even a ripped TV-series DVD from my DVD collection.  When someone using my HTPC is looking for a TV show it should always be listed under TV.
\nThe problem with this is SageTV<\/a> sees things differently.  If you import a video file \u2013 even if its a TV show it knows it hasn\u2019t been recorded from the DVR function and therefore relegates it to \u201cVideos.\u201d  So what\u2019s a perfectionist to do?
\nThe answer is actually quite simple although I haven\u2019t found a clear-cut how-to on this so I decided to write one myself to help out other overly-orderly SageTV users like myself.
\nThere is another method that involves a very impressive metadata manager for SageTV called BMT (Batch Metadata Tools).  I\u2019ll hold that method for a future how-to for now and focus on this simple method using SageTV Web Server:
\nThe complete how-to after the jump\u2026<\/p>\n

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Steps to Change a SageTV video file to the Recorded TV section<\/h4>\n

Note:  This is assuming you\u2019ve already imported the video in question into SageTV\u2019s database.<\/i>
\nStep 1 \u2013 Install <\/b>SageTV Web Server<\/b><\/a> following these instructions<\/b>
\nStep 2 \u2013 Select \u201cMedia Library\u201d and \u201cSearch Imported Videos\u201d from the top menu of SageTV Web Server<\/b>
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\nStep 3 \u2013 Search for the video.  In this example I searched for \u201cGood Eats\u201d<\/b>
\n\"Convert
\nBelow you see the found video file which is a mpg.  It currently is listed in videos \u2013 and I want it to show up under TV.
\n\"Convert
\nStep 4 \u2013 Select the video file you wish to convert, then click on \u201cEdit Show Info\u201d with your mouse<\/b>
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\nStep 5 \u2013 Put a checkmark in the \u201cEdit Show Information\u201d box.  Don\u2019t worry about the warning \u2013 it\u2019s been there for years and I have yet to mess up my SageTV database.  To be safe you can always back up your wiz.bin (database) file \u2013 I recommend you do this regularly anyway.
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\nStep 6 \u2013 Once you\u2019ve selected \u201cedit show information\u201d all fields will be editable.  Feel free to fill in any of the blanks like show name, episode name, category, description etc.  The key here is to make sure “Auto Generate New EPxxx EPGID\u201d is selected with a checkmark.  This is what will move the video to the TV section by tricking SageTV into thinking it was recorded by SageTV.
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\nStep 7 \u2013 Now you can click on the \u201cupdate\u201d button at the bottom-left of the page.
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\nThat\u2019s it.  You can now open up SageTV and the file will be listed under TV.  Note that I left the \u201cShow Name\u201d as \u201cGood Eats \u2013 S06E11 \u2013 Casserole Over\u201d which really isn\u2019t a great way to name it.  It\u2019s best to name the show by the series name \u201cGood Eats\u201d and then name the episode name with\u2026 well the episode name.  But you get the idea.
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\nThe other way is a bit more automated and involves a really nice add-on known as BMT (Batch Metadata Tools).  I\u2019ll cover that in a future how-to.<\/p>\n

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One of my many hang-ups with HTPCs is organization of the media.  In my perfect world, all TV shows up under TV regardless of whether it is something I recorded using my HTPC tuners, something I imported from a video file or even a ripped TV-series DVD from my DVD collection.  When someone using my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}