[mythtv-users] Enhancement Suggestions
Chris Petersen
lists at forevermore.net
Sun Jul 6 02:21:45 EDT 2003
> With my category_type patch (checked into CVS by now), it actually is.
> zap2it doesn't provide this info, but I added a rudimentary movie
> recognition to mythfilldatabase.
Any idea if this is in .10 or not?
> I made up the following "category types", based on what my source
> provides: "movie", "sports", "tvshow" (soap, talkshow), "series". If you
> have any others to add...
dunno, maybe "news"? It probably falls under tvshow, but might be
different enough to count as its own category.
> XMLTV DTD 0.6 does provide for a way to specify standardized category
> systems and the ability to differ between "programme type" (movie,
> series) (what I called category_type) and "genre" (drama, action,
> thriller). The current "category" is a mix of those (action movie), and
> the new DTD will still allow those mixes.
hmm, cool. now to figure out how to support it in a gui.
> Yes, the current system is somewhat slow, but I personally don't like
> mouse-keyboard switches at all.
yeah, me neither. but sometimes it's nice to just type what I'm
thinking. Menu it will stay - but I'll make sure to add string support
in for those who want to add it into a theme.
-Chris
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