[mythtv-users] mythvideo, Q#1 (why "video"?)

Douglas Beck beckd at dig-concepts.com
Tue May 25 19:10:16 EDT 2004


I wrote a script that automatically converts all my recorded programs to 
lower bitrate DivX files and stuffs them in the videos directory.  So I 
have hundreds of videos in my MythVideo list but only one or two are movies.

J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> Franco wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I have some questions regarding mythvideo...
>>
>> first of all, why is it called mythVIDEO?
>> I see a "video", in Myth, has a Director,
>> a rating, a plot, a year, a cover image..
>> and an IMDB number used for retrieve this data! :-)
>>
>> I would call an object meeting these properties,
>> a MOVIE. So why isn't the "mythvideo" module
>> called "mythMOVIE" instead?
>>
>> Just a curiosity.  Please note, I'm not
>> a native English speaker, so maybe I just
>> misunderstand the words' meaning....
>>  
>>
>
> It's called MythVideo because it manages and plays back video files.  
> While many times the video file in question is a movie, there are 
> folks with collections of other types of video files as well.
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