<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <<a href="mailto:jyavenard@gmail.com">jyavenard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi<br>
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Matt MacDonald<br>
<<a href="mailto:macdonald.matthew@gmail.com">macdonald.matthew@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have to disagree with this statement. My wife, who is somewhat<br>
> technical figured the UI out without any trouble and when my<br>
> grandmother (who's VCR is still flashing 12:00) came by to visit, she<br>
> picked up the remote and just started to use it.<br>
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</div>to just change channels and watch, sure.<br>
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try to rewind, skip back etc... then the hassle starts.<br>
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Also no easy way to access the current program information.<br>
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on my cable box, i press the i button and it shows the name of the<br>
program, press i again and you have a nice summary.<br>
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all that information is there in mythtv, you just can't easily and<br>
intuitively have access to it<br>
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<br>It is possible to script the scanning of new videos in mythvideo. I believe, all you need is to ls the files in your mythvideo directory to come up with a list of videos, compare that with all the videos in videocategory and then perform a mysql insert command of videos that are not in the videocatogory. Run this via a cron job. I have something like this, but more complicated as I use it to download video podcasts into specific directories and insert them into the database under specific videocategories. Its probably too complicated for your needs, but you can examine it as a starting point if you wish. No guarantee that it will work for you, in fact it could completely ruin things. Beware. <br>
<br>As far as mapping a button to display program information of currently playing video in mythvideo, perhaps you can build a script to do that and map it to a button. The script should parse ps to see which title or filename is being played by mplayer , then extract the relevant information from the database using command line mysql, and then output it with xosd on the screen. <br>
<br>Chris<br><br><br> <br><br>Chris<br><br></div></div><br>