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DVR default and optional recording paths question


BLWedge09

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BLWedge09

I'm asking this here, because I'm running emby 4.0.0.2 on Ubuntu 18.04. If you feel it fits better elsewhere, feel free to move it. I have a question about the default and optional recording paths in the server configuration as shown in my attached screenshot.

 

I have the default recording path set to /home/myUser/Storage/embyDVR .  embyDVR is both owned by the emby user and in the emby group. no issues there.  I'm trying to determine what behavior I would see if I added a movie recording path and series recording path...both inside the embyDVR directory. For example

Movie path: /home/myUser/Storage/embyDVR/movies

Series Path: /home/myUser/Storage/embyDVR/series

 

Assuming my permissions are ok, will anything continue to be recorded directly to /home/myUser/Storage/embyDVR ? Or, as I would like, could I reconfigure my TV Show library to include just  /home/myUser/Storage/embyDVR/series and my movie library to include just  /home/myUser/Storage/embyDVR/movies ? Do i risk missing recordings being in a library (I don't have a separate DVR library) if the  /home/myUser/Storage/embyDVR directory isn't included in a library ? 

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Hi, welcome. Anything that's not a movie or series would go into the default folder, so for example Sports, or other one-off programs that are not movies.

 

Does that answer your question?

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I am curious on that, would the system show everything from

Movie path: /home/myUser/Storage/embyDVR/movies

Series Path: /home/myUser/Storage/embyDVR/series 

Under the system default "recordings" library? 

I am thinking if they want to segrigate things it might be better to have something like

/home/umyUser/Storage/embyDVR/other

/home/umyUser/Storage/embyDVR/movies

/home/umyUser/Storage/embyDVR/series

This way there are 3 different libraries with different paths.

 

With the /home/umyUser/Storage/embyDVR/other set as the default recording path so anything not seen as a series or movie would go there.

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Yes you could do different libraries using the dedicated content types, and then enter the folders from those libraries into dvr settings.

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