[mythtv-users] Video Catalog

[Tony Baca]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, David Segall <david at segall.net> wrote:

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> Tony Baca wrote:
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>> My Video collection is getting quite large.  The Wife does not like to
>> scroll through the videos looking at what there is, honestly, I don’t like
>> to either.
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>> I want to make a “card catalog” of the videos.  I would like to pull from
>> the database information and print it on a card, or piece of paper, put the
>> paper in a three ring binder.  As I add new vides, I can print a page and
>> insert it in the proper place in the binder.
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>> Two questions:
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>>            1) Has anyone done something similar or solved the problem in a
>> different manor?
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>>            2) What tools would you recommend to someone who knows only the
>> very basics of sql?
>>
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> I wrote an entry in the Wiki that explains how to connect the MythTV
> database to Microsoft Access <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access>.
> Once you have done that Microsoft Access provides a simple form that
> generates the SQL required to extract the data and a report generator that
> will print your page in the format you specify. Open Office Base
> http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html> provides comparable
> facilities and is cross platform and open source.
>

Thanks, this sounds like what I am looking for.
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