[mythtv-users] MythArchive and MythCollection

[tom roth]

Now that MythArchive is so successfull (Congratulations to Paul) i recently
experienced a spark of interest in my MythArchive Extension MythCollection.
The Goal of MythCollection is to help you keep track on the movies you have
archived. It also supports you on the generation of a nice CD-Cover and
there is a (rudimentary) webfrontend for mythburn. Now before you all get
excited, while this works rather well for me, this is pre-alpha software. It
consists of:
- mythcollect.py a python script that gets called by mythburn.py, looks at
the jobfile and writes title and description of the archived files into the
mythcollection table. Of course this is optional and can be configured with
an option in mydata.xml.
- mythcover.py, another python script that gets (optionaly) called by
mythcollect.py and creates a cd-cover using a screenshot of the movie.
- MythCollection, just another moviedatabase integrated with the mythtv
database. MythCollection does the following:
- - Enrich the movie information by  an IMDB lookup.
- - Provides a browse and a search interface (using ajax)
- - Manual Editing
- - Shelf organisation with index markers
- - CD-Cover generation. Here mythcover.py is called again, but this time
there a more options to influence the generation process.

I use MythCollection to keep track of all my Movie including the DVDs i
bought. I also set up a rudimentary webinterface to call mythburn from.

If this is of any interest to you i could send you the code and help you
setting it all up until a installation routine is written.
At this stage it would be best if you knew how to write bugreports and a
little python and/or ruby would be helpfull.
MythCollection is a ruby on rails application. Now why did i do this ?
There are several reasons:

- I looked at mythweb and found the code quite complicated to integrate
another module. This is by all means no complaint against mythweb, which i
like and use often.
- My first Announcement of MythCollection met with little interest so i
choose a route more convenient for me.
- I wanted a granular Authentication schema which allows me to put my
collection online for my friends to see, but restrict the editing part.
- Configuring apache is rather complicated and i do not want to support
that.
- I think with webapplications you can do seamless integrations on the
frontendview even with diffrent backends.
- Rails is fun ;-)

regards  tom
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