[mythtv-users] mythvideo, Q#1 (why "video"?)

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Franco wrote:

>Hello.
>
>I have some questions regarding mythvideo...
>
>first of all, why is it called mythVIDEO? 
>
>I see a "video", in Myth, has a Director,
>a rating, a plot, a year, a cover image..
>and an IMDB number used for retrieve this data! :-)
>
>I would call an object meeting these properties,
>a MOVIE. So why isn't the "mythvideo" module
>called "mythMOVIE" instead?
>
>Just a curiosity.  Please note, I'm not
>a native English speaker, so maybe I just
>misunderstand the words' meaning....
>  
>

It's called MythVideo because it manages and plays back video files.  
While many times the video file in question is a movie, there are folks 
with collections of other types of video files as well.