[mythtv] Category vs Genre

Xavier Hervy xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com
Sun Feb 8 00:47:09 UTC 2009


Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I first posted in the mythtv-user list but I feel this belongs more on
> the development list.
>
> There seem to be a bit of discrepancies between the use of genres or
> categories thorough mythtv and in particular mythvideos.
>
> mythvideos and the video manager when calling the external scripts to
> retrieve data from imdb will fill the Genres field ; allowing more
> than one genre per video...
>
> Yet, the UI only let you modify the category field in the mythtvideo GUI
>   
Feature request ?
> Using the perl or python bindings however, you can only modify the
> "category" field, and only one entry per video.
>
>   
Feature request ?
> So which one are we supposed to use? category or genre ?
>   
Difference between category and genre have been well explain in you 
thread on the user list
> If the genre, what would be the recommended way to modify the metadata
> using either the perl or python bindings ?
> I'm guessing those would have to be modified to support adding
> multiple genre to the metadata of a video entry.
>   
video already support multiple genres but only one category.
> Unless of course I'm confused and both genres and categories should be used....
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> Thanks
> Jean-Yves
>   
Feature requests are generally not welcome, which might explain the lack 
of answer
Regards,
Xavier



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