[mythtv-users] An idea for mythtv developers (especially Myth Video)

Ivan Kowalenko ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com
Wed May 24 20:26:39 UTC 2006


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On May 24, 2006, at 14.02, john sturgeon wrote:

> On 5/24/06, Vijay Gill <vijay.s.gill at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have 259 episodes of The Simpsons (and the collection is growing).
>> All in XviD. So I thought having this kind of functionality in MythTV
>> would be cool.
>>
>> Vijay
>
> So here's what I'm thinking.
>
> If you had a DVD with a manifest (in XML) of the files, and their
> metadata, you could write a script to mount the dvd (if it's not
> mounted),

That feature is already a part of MythTV... kinda. Myth will detect  
if a disc has been inserted, and will mount it. It will also  
determine if the disc is a VCD, DVD-Video, Audio, or Data disc, and  
handle them appropriately. All that's needed in this case, is for the  
XML to be parsed. The only problem is, I have yet to figure out how  
to UNmount a disc inside Myth.

> parse the XML file and insert the entries into the
> 'videometadata'  table.  You could add a menu entry the the 'Optical
> Disks' menu to execute the script (ala:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Menu_theme_development_guide),
> then jump to MythVideo.
>
> Then you would be able to 'load' the DVD, and have the shows show up
> in MythVideo.

I think you just described the original idea ;)

> If you wanted to avoid the meta-data XML file, you could simply name
> the files on the disk intelligently, and have a link to your directory
> where your DVD's mount under MythVideo.

That's what I do, but the problem is that you still lose some of the  
fun features. You lose the metadata on the show itself, and you have  
to go in and manually insert pictures, etc. Some of this hassle is  
taken care of, if we're talking about a movie, then you can just nab  
the data off of the IMDb.

I'd also like to see support of MKV Metadata, but I'll settle for  
ANYTHING that is an improvement over the existing system. One more  
thing to tackle would be generating the XML data in the first place.  
I suppose you could create it by hand, but it could be nifty to be  
able to grab the metadata out of mythconverg, and embed that data  
into the DVD XML manifest.
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