[mythtv] Proposed work on MythVideo - Re-tool video-manager forlarge libraries, Add the concept of a 'series'

[Xavier Hervy]

Matt S. wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:23 PM, xavier hervy
> <xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 13:11 -0400, Matt S. wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Joe Ripley <vitaminjoe at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Matt S. <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Also, while I'm hear... might I throw out a tagging system for
>>>>> mythvideo.  Would be nice to be able to tag videos such as "comedy",
>>>>> "animation", "notyetwatched", "favorite", etc.
>>>>>           
>>>> I think the current incarnation of MythVideo already has this... it's
>>>> called 'Categories'.  You can assign each video to a given category
>>>> and then filter based on that.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Joe - can you assign multiple categories to a single video (n:1) or is
>>> it a 1:1 assignment?
>>>
>>>       
>> 1:1
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>
> That's what I thought... However, it would be nice to include
> "tagging" with an n:1 ration so that you could look up movies that fit
> multiple categories.  A single move could be tagged "Suspense",
> "Favorite", "AwardWinner", "etc".  That's the beauty of tagging, and I
> think it was brought up as one of the things San was working on.
>
> Anyway - I know this is the dev list, and unfortunately, I don't have
> a patch so I'll just leave it at that and hope that maybe a dev will
> take up the challenge of picking up where San left off (or maybe San
> will come back around and pick up where he left off).
>
>   
Genre does already this but not category. unfortunally the interface 
doesn't allow the user to modify the genres (set by the grabber)
Xavier