[mythtv-users] how to improve Myth (was "OT: I'm streaming Netflix on my Linux box")

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 8:32 PM, Magnus wrote:

> jedi wrote:
>>     That's a bit silly. Just put the Star Trek episodes in a separate
>> directory. You don't have to shove everything in the same place.
>
> Ah, but why should it matter what directory a file is in?  Why force  
> the
> end user to do the sorting when you have a perfectly good RDBMS  
> sitting
> there not even breathing hard, begging for work like this to do on  
> your
> behalf.
>
> Drop the media objects in any folder that MythTV can see.  It  
> shouldn't
> matter how they are stored as long as Myth knows where to find them.
> The sorting should be based on the metadata for the media objects, not
> based on filesystem layout.

Since it's been 2 months, we could just relive this entire thread again:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/344388

I was looking for the other thread that talks about searching across  
all media and exactly what you suggested, but I am too lazy to keep  
looking for it. Maybe we can just jump right to talking about multi- 
user support and parental controls.