<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 04/23/2007 05:53 PM, ryan patterson wrote:<br>> I'm sure this system makes sense to whomever programed it. But<br>> personally I can't see why you would ever want to remove the<br>> information inside of brackets/braces.
<br><br>Read Anduin's message (<br><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/265603#265603">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/265603#265603</a> ),<br>specifically the part about, "In your specific case," continuing through
<br>(and including), "An equally reasonable scenario."<br><br>> I know in my case I explicitly put the information in the file name<br>> because I wanted it to be part of the title. If I didn't want it in
<br>> the title I wouldn't have put it there.<br><br>title != filename<br><br>> Why does mythvideo guess that I want part of the title removed?<br><br>Do you really want to see ".avi" or ".mpg" or ".zxw" or whatever? Isn't
<br>MythVideo guessing that you want that removed?<br><br>Filenames are artificially constrained by filesystem rules, by usability<br>requirements (i.e. spaces in filenames are evil), by filesystem encoding<br>rules, and more. The title, on the other hand, is the user-interface
<br>name (i.e. human-readable) for the video. Therefore, IMHO, displaying<br>the filename exactly as is leaves much to be desired.<br><br>Those users who want the filename displayed as is can go into Video<br>Manager (or MythWeb) and change the title to be equal to the filename.
<br>Or, perhaps if someone can prove that >50% of users want the filename<br>used as a title, without modification, then the guess title<br>functionality can be removed from MythVideo. :)<br><br>(Then again, maybe it's only important to prove that Anduin--the guy who
<br>puts in a lot of effort to maintain MythVideo--uses the filename without<br>modification. However, I doubt this is the case since, er, well,<br>MythVideo modifies the filename to create a title.)<br><br>Mike<br></blockquote>
</div><br>I think it is clear that I am not using MythVideo the way it is designed to be used. But I have absolutely no desire to edit meta data. I edit the file name and the directory structure to tell me everything I need to know. I simply want a menu system in MythFrontend that can navigate the directory structure and allow me to pick from the files I place in the directories. In order to do that I need to see the complete file name. Yes the complete file name includes stuff in brackets/braces and the file extension. Even if some people want MythVideo to automatically guess titles from file names I can't imagine throwing away the removed information is a good idea.
<br><br>I'm not trying to say the current design is wrong or bad. Just it doesn't fit my usage method. Also I don't know what the majority of users would prefer. I will see if I can figure out how to change this behavior myself.
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>_____________<br>Ryan Patterson