[mythtv-users] how to improve Myth (was "OT: I'm streaming Netflix on my Linux box")
Yeechang Lee
ylee at pobox.com
Wed Oct 8 14:21:11 UTC 2008
Magnus <magnus at yonderway.com> says:
> 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.
I completly agree, *as long as it's easy to quickly add/edit the
metadata*. Given the choice of using MythVideo's awful, awful Video
manager or sticking with the filesystem directories-based Gallery,
most sane people are going to choose the latter.
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