[mythtv-users] MythVideo Scripting
Adam Branaugh
abranaugh at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 21:17:18 UTC 2007
The point of doing this is to get the episode number out of the title
and filename.
If I save it as default then either it will show only the TV shows or
only the videos. I want both the Videos and TV Shows browsable.
I am using the gallery view also.
On Nov 25, 2007 10:11 AM, Paul Mason <latepaul at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 23/11/2007, Adam Branaugh <abranaugh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a question on a way to order the videos in MythVideo. Right
> > now I have 3 tv shows in their own folder, with each season in a
> > seperate folder. Then each episode is names in this fashion:
> > EpisodeNumber EpisdoeName.
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> > I don't like the episode number there though. I have edited the
> > database where all the metadata is stored and added a boolean field,
> > and a int field. The boolean is a true of false that would be checked
> > if it is a TV show or not. The int field would be for the episdoe
> > number. Now what I would like to do but do not know of a way to do
> > it, would be to set each Episode of the tv show in a category named TV
> > shows. Then if the TV shows cateogry is applied, I would like it to
> > sort by this int field episodeNumber, otherwise sort by the title.
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> > I dont' know if the boolean field is necessary or not. I was thinking
> > about not having any category but decided the category idea might be
> > simpler. I added that without thinking everything through completely
> > but that can be changed easily. I think there is a way to do this but
> > I do not know how to program in C++, I only have experince in PHP and
> > Java. I was looking at the videofilter.cpp that came with the
> > MythPlugins package. What would be the best way to do this? I
> > probably could figure out what to code if someone could help me figure
> > out what exactly it needs to do and where it should be placed.
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> > I am currently using MythDora by the way, don't know if anything was
> > changed when MythDora was created in that script. I want all the
> > videos to show, the movies and the TV shows at the same time, not just
> > one or the other.
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> > If you need any information please feel free to ask.
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> > Thanks,
> > Adam
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> Why not sort on filename and then just make sure the filenames sort in the
> order you want. I'll bet the TV episodes already do.
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