[mythtv-users] An idea for importing video from removable media

[Brad DerManouelian]

On May 11, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Stephen Atkins wrote:

> A friend of mine and I often will burn a tv show to cd/dvd with the  
> nuv export information.  He's still running version 18 of MythTV  
> and I'm running 19 so importing the video doesn't work.  Not a big  
> deal as its fairly easy to watch in myth video.  My idea is to make  
> another plugin for myth that we could get to read some removable  
> media (either cd/dvd/usb stick/ipod) and if a specific file is  
> found (some sort of xml file something like an RSS feed xml) it  
> would create a menu of the media titles.  From there you could  
> watch the show, listen to the music that sort of thing.  What would  
> make it even better is the ability to use nuv export to create the  
> xml file.
>
> I'm currently looking at doing this by modifying the MythNews  
> plugin as its probably the closest thing to it and it should give  
> me a chance to learn how to interact with myth.  If any one is  
> interested in helping that would be great.  Either respond here or  
> ICQ me at 11782200.  I haven't really started this project yet as  
> I'm still in the planning stages so any input is good.
>
> Stephen

Have a look at myth2ipod. It already does the exporting features  
you're talking about including making an RSS feed of the processed  
recordings. No idea on import, but this is probably a good starting  
point.