[mythtvnz] Import media files from USB drive

[Paulgir]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:47:31 +1200, Worik Stanton  
<worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> Primarily to copy them to videos storage,but to play direct off the usb  
>> drive would be very useful as well.
>>
> I just copy the files into the video directory of the backend  
> (/var/lib/mythtv/video on my machine from memory) and in the front end I  
> use the 'M' key and rescan.
>
> It would be cool to be ale to do that from the front end using the  
> MythTV UI.
>
> Worik
>
So I take it that there is no way to do this from the UI?
Am I correct to think that it can be done from optical discs?
I'm surprised that this functionality has not been extended to memory  
sticks.

-Paul