[mythtv-users] Extracting info from mythtv database

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Jan 17 03:15:40 UTC 2014


On 01/16/2014 08:58 PM, Yan Seiner wrote:
> I'd like to develop a transcoding job for interfacing myth with roku.  
> (Very basic; I just want to play myth recordings on the roku.)  I have 
> the transcoding part done (that's easy) what I need is a script that 
> takes info from the myth database and puts it into an xml format like 
> this:
>
> <movie>
> <origtitle>Avatar</origtitle>
> <year>2009</year>
> <genre>Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi</genre>
> <mpaa>Rated PG-13</mpaa>
> <director>James Cameron</director>
> <actors>Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen 
> Lang</actors>
> <description>A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a 
> unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and 
> protecting the world he feels is his home.</description>
> <path>Z:\WWW\WWW-pub\Media\Videos\Avatar.mp4</path>
> <length>120</length>
> <videocodec>mp4</videocodec>
> <poster>images/Avatar.jpg</poster>
> </movie>
>
> Unfortunately I am worthless with perl and all the examples I've found 
> are in perl.  (Perl just doesn't think like I do.)
>
> Is anyone aware of an example script in php or python for extracting 
> data from the myth database that I could use as a starting point?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/536328#536328

Mike


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