[mythtv-users] Using program.category_type column to find movies

[Frank Phillips]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> On 11/24/2014 05:20 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:
>
>> I've been looking at how I can easily identify which of my recordings are
>> movies when using MythFrontend. In Australia, the program data seems to end
>> up with programs with a program.category column of eg Comedy, Drama,
>> Western etc, and a program.category_type column of Movie.
>>
>> I believe the program.category_type column is populated  by
>> mythfilldatabase looking at the <category> field in the xml file and
>> setting the 'category_type' column if the first, second or more xml file
>> <category> values match the special keywords 'movie', 'sports', 'series',
>> 'tvshow'.
>>
>> This is all well and good, but as far as I know, the
>> program.category_type column isn't presented in MythFrontend as a filter
>> option. So what's the point of this column if you can't search on it?
>>
>> I'm thinking of running a script after mythfilldatabase which sets
>> program.category='movie' where program.category_type='movie'. Is this a
>> sensible idea, or flawed?
>>
>
> If you mean for the purposes of recording or finding movies to record,
> there's no need.  You can use category_type.
>
> The easiest way to find a list of all the upcoming movies is to go to
> Manage Recordings|Schedule Recordings|Search Lists and then choose Movies.
> You can then set a filter on star ratings (or choose All).
>
> If you want a generic rule that records a bunch of movies, you can create
> a Power/Custom recording rule based off category_type.  One of the Sample
> Clauses shown in the editor (Manage Recordings|Schedule Recordings|Custom
> Record is "Category type ('movie', 'series', 'sports' or 'tvshow')" and
> another is "Limit movies by the year of release".  You can use either of
> those clauses along with any other (such as "Minimum star rating (0.0 to
> 1.0 for movies only)") to specify which movies to record.  Both clauses are
> based on category_type.
>
> If you mean filtering on category_type in Watch Recordings, you can't do
> that--you should use recording groups as Mike P mentioned.
>
> Mike
>
>
I think the option he is looking for is a Movie template.

Go to the Manage Recording Rules screen. M > New Template. The name should
match what you commonly have for category/category_type, but is not
case-sensitive (I use "Movie"). In the Storage Options, add it to a new
Movie recording group.

Assign the TV Frontend/PAGERIGHT key (Setup > Edit Keys) to something on
your remote for toggling between default, movie, etc. I think all themes
support this. Otherwise, just use the M>M>Change Group Filter Option in the
recordings screen.

https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/71c65b

Frank
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