[mythtv-users] RE:FW: Questions about MythMusic & MythVideo Future Development

[Keat Lim]

I was using MythVideo and noticed that List Videos rely on the populated
database. That also means it needs to do an initial catalog first to fill
the videometadata table. 

Could there be a setting that you could check that would bypass any
database query at all and use List Videos as sort of a file explorer and
not query the database at all?

Why I say this is that I do not expect to catalog any movies (like the
user below) and my mount point is based on several Windows shares that I
smbmount to attach. Sometimes not all of them are available (both the
machines and the contents within the shares because they get
deleted/added) therefore cataloging is just not the way to go.

Is this a feature that seems logical?

-keat


>>As for MythVideo:
>> 
>>The new video browsing & IMDB look-ups are nifty for the few Hollywood 
>titles that I have 
>>kicking around, but most of my video collection is non-blockbuster stuff
>-- TV episodes, 
>>Anime, and whatnot. There's also a HUGE number of titles. I have
>everything sorted up into 
>>a fairly elaborate directory tree, and the old tree-browsing interface
>was perfect for 
>>drilling down to my various videos. I made the mistake once of
>letting the new M.Video run 
>>against my full video tree, and it took forever to index the 40,000-odd
>titles I had sitting 
>>there. Then browsing by flipping through one video at a time was 
impossible! Are there any
>>plans to re-integrate the old browsing method into the new M.Video as an
>additional option? 
>>Even if the old code was just translated to run on the new Myth plug-in
>architecture, I'd be 
>>more than happy to have both the old and new programs in my Myth main
>menu. 
>
>Already done... the "List Videos" menu choice allows you to browse
>your video directory structure.
>-JAC