[mythtv-commits] Ticket #2968: script to generate DVD box labels for mytharchive native format archive disks

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#2968: script to generate DVD box labels for mytharchive native format archive
disks
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 Reporter:  schachte at csse.unimelb.edu.au  |        Owner:  paulh  
     Type:  enhancement                   |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  minor                         |    Milestone:  unknown
Component:  mytharchive                   |      Version:  0.20   
 Severity:  low                           |   Resolution:         
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Comment (by schachte at csse.unimelb.edu.au):

 Hi Lukas,

 Thanks for your comments.

 I hadn't noticed the part about new dependencies, but I certainly agree
 with it in general.  That's why I suggested this script for the contrib
 directory rather than integration into mytharchive proper.  I had thought
 about generating postscript directly, and I may yet do that, but
 cdlabelgen does a pretty good job and already does most of the work.  Also
 note that just by virtue of the fact that this script generates something
 to be printed it will necessarily add dependencies, since Myth currently
 doesn't do any printing.

 As to config/mydata.xml, I wanted this script to be able to run long after
 the DVD is burned and that file is purged.  This is for two reasons:
 firstly, I wanted to be able to print covers for DVDs I had already burned
 (and I expect others would, too).  Secondly, I wanted to be able to
 generate covers for DVD cases holding multiple archive discs generated at
 different times.  The cases I use hold two discs; I may burn the two discs
 months apart, so I won't have the two mydata.xml files at the same time.
 Happily, native archive discs already contain practically all the info
 needed for a DVD label.  If regular (non-native) mytharchive DVDs had the
 same info, I could adapt this script to work for them, too.

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