[mythtv-users] An idea for importing video from removable media
Derek Meek
thekazan at gmail.com
Thu May 11 12:51:00 EDT 2006
Stephen Atkins wrote:
> A friend of mine and I often will burn a tv show to cd/dvd with the
> nuv export information. He's still running version 18 of MythTV and
> I'm running 19 so importing the video doesn't work. Not a big deal as
> its fairly easy to watch in myth video. My idea is to make another
> plugin for myth that we could get to read some removable media (either
> cd/dvd/usb stick/ipod) and if a specific file is found (some sort of
> xml file something like an RSS feed xml) it would create a menu of the
> media titles. From there you could watch the show, listen to the
> music that sort of thing. What would make it even better is the
> ability to use nuv export to create the xml file.
>
> I'm currently looking at doing this by modifying the MythNews plugin
> as its probably the closest thing to it and it should give me a chance
> to learn how to interact with myth. If any one is interested in
> helping that would be great. Either respond here or ICQ me at
> 11782200. I haven't really started this project yet as I'm still in
> the planning stages so any input is good.
>
> Stephen
this probably treads too far into enabling sharing
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