[mythtv] Editing the Category

[Tom Lichti]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 03/26/2013 01:12 PM, Tom Lichti wrote:
>
>> Mike, this looks quite promising. Are you (as in the devs) also looking
>> at using the 'tag' system to tag recordings and videos, so that media is
>> 'type agnostic', in that a tag view could contain both classic 'recordings'
>> and/or classic 'videos'? By classic I mean 'the current MythTV method of
>> identifying the different file sources'. Maybe 'legacy' is a better term to
>> use, but regardless, that would make my life a lot easier in terms of being
>> able to present a converged (yes, I am using that term in full knowledge of
>> how it pertains to MythTV) view of content. I won't use the term
>> synergistic, it's too Enterprise-y :)
>>
>> I look forward to this functionality, I think it will be a huge leap in
>> flexibility for the project.
>>
>>
> Well, I can tell you for sure that eventually videos in the Video Library
> will support tags, too--we're going to (= others are waiting on some work I
> promised to) move the schema so that recordings and Video Library videos
> both share common schema structure and metadata, now that Video Library is
> part of the core of MythTV.  At this point, moving a recording to Video
> Library would be as simple as clicking a button or checking a box in the UI
> (and, theoretically, you could choose to just show it in both Video Library
> and Watch Recordings).
>
> As for whether you will be able to see media, regardless of location, I
> can't answer that, yet.  I really want that capability (because why should
> visitors at my house have to know whether the video they want to watch is
> in Watch Recordings or in Video Library--or for that matter, why should
> they have to know whether it's a video or music or ...), but other
> developers don't seem so enamored with the idea.  I think that may be
> because most of them are thinking "if I have to use Watch Recordings
> interface for all my 10000 videos in my collection, I'll go mad" (for those
> with large collections of video and who prefer Video Library) or "I used
> MythVideo in 0.13 and don't like the interface (or I used MythVideo in 0.26
> and I hate the interface--not knowing they have it misconfigured) so I
> don't want to have to use it for my recordings" (for those who primarily
> use TV, now).  In my vision, we'd use the opportunity to improve both
> "views" and actually take advantage of the consolidation of metadata.  But,
> this change will be harder to "prove" to those who don't like the
> idea--especially since I'm terrible with UI design (but I'll cross that
> bridge--and ask for help--when I get to it).
>

At the very least the first part would be a great step forward, as for the
second part, I'll cross my fingers. Unfortunately I can't code or design,
at least to the level required, but I can provide moral support as needed!

Tom
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