@ipguy You can also add 'Recordings' as a video source and scrape directly from there without having to re-arrange things, add network shares, or make copies/links etc...
There are currently some gotchas with this approach:
- It relies on your backend/PVR addon providing recordings named and organized like the scraper expects within the pvr://recordings/... 'directory structure'
- There is a bug in Helix which means that unless the recordings directory is 'cached' it thinks the directory doesn't exist and won't update the library. The good news is the fix should be in Isenguard beta 2 :-).
With Helix you can at least partially work around the 'CPVRDirectory::Exists' bug. You can 'cache' the directory by opening recordings and browsing to a lower level folder. Then go direct to 'home' (i.e. not using 'back') so Kodi keeps the recordings folder in cache. Then add your video source/update/clean the library etc... Once an item is in the library, you can access it fine without this work-around.
If you patch Helix, or run a fixed version of Isenguard you could then install the XBMC library auto updater addon and it will periodically add new recordings to your library and (if you ask it to) clean out the old ones which have expired. This will add new recordings to the 'recently added' display area, which should let the wife and son know what new things have been recorded.
In my experience (using a mythtv backend and patched pvr.mythtv addon) this works out of the box for 90% of movies. Some post tweaking of the video library is required to make sure you don't get the wrong 'remake' (or a porno for 'X2'). Good for the 'Movies' tab
For box sets/series, this won't be successful without good series/episode data in the backend and your addon doing things in a way that ttvdb scraper likes (See
adding season/episode to the recordings list and
the wiki article suggested by Prof Yaffle). Having said that, with tweaks to the backend data and a patched pvr.mythtv addon, my 'TV Shows' tab now shows all my box sets with icons, plots, fanart etc...
If you do decide to go this path, I'd be interested to know how you get on with the WMC PVR addon.