[mythtv] DB Schema Suggestions

Michael J. Pedersen michael.j.pedersen at verizon.net
Tue Apr 15 18:35:32 EDT 2003


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:21:40PM -0700, Mike Benoit wrote:
> Is there a way to automatically remove commercials when recordings are
> archived? If this is possible, an option to enable/disable this might
be
> useful.

Yes, to a degree. The mkmovie script works with the editlist which can
be set in mythtv. End result: Chop out the commercials in mythtv, and
this script chops them out when re-encoding.

> How would the output filename be set? I assume a default name could be
> automatically generated from the TV Guide data?

It can be done, but I've not seriously considered it yet. Wouldn't be a
bad idea, though.

> As far as what Isaac said, you don't have to modify the existing
schema,
> all you would need is to create a new table to store these settings.
> That way changes could be made more easily as well.

Well, technically, adding a new table modifies the database schema, but
I can see a need/desire to put it in separately. I think I'll make that
one of my todo items.

So, I have to ask if anybody's using these scripts yet? I'd really like
to hear any feedback that people have.



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