[mythtv-commits] Ticket #2968: script to generate DVD box labels for mytharchive native format archive disks
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Mon Feb 12 00:43:55 UTC 2007
#2968: script to generate DVD box labels for mytharchive native format archive
disks
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Reporter: schachte at csse.unimelb.edu.au | Owner: paulh
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: unknown
Component: mytharchive | Version: 0.20
Severity: low | Resolution:
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Comment (by schachte at csse.unimelb.edu.au):
Hi Lukas,
Thanks for your comments.
I hadn't noticed the part about new dependencies, but I certainly agree
with it in general. That's why I suggested this script for the contrib
directory rather than integration into mytharchive proper. I had thought
about generating postscript directly, and I may yet do that, but
cdlabelgen does a pretty good job and already does most of the work. Also
note that just by virtue of the fact that this script generates something
to be printed it will necessarily add dependencies, since Myth currently
doesn't do any printing.
As to config/mydata.xml, I wanted this script to be able to run long after
the DVD is burned and that file is purged. This is for two reasons:
firstly, I wanted to be able to print covers for DVDs I had already burned
(and I expect others would, too). Secondly, I wanted to be able to
generate covers for DVD cases holding multiple archive discs generated at
different times. The cases I use hold two discs; I may burn the two discs
months apart, so I won't have the two mydata.xml files at the same time.
Happily, native archive discs already contain practically all the info
needed for a DVD label. If regular (non-native) mytharchive DVDs had the
same info, I could adapt this script to work for them, too.
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Ticket URL: <http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2968#comment:2>
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