[mythtv-users] MythVid: Display Movies in Correct Order

[Ryan Steffes]

On 10/1/07, James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have got a 2 TB soft RAID5 on my backend.  I have made ISOs out of all my
> movies and stored them on this backend.  I have several trilogies that I
> have named appropriately.  Rambo 1, Rambo 2, Rambo 3, BTTF 1, BTTF 2, BTTF
> 3, Star Wars 1,2,3,4,5,6, etc.  However, in Gallery mode, MythVid doesn't
> display them correctly.  I get BTTF 3, 2, 1 or Star Wars 2, 1, 3, 5,4,6.
> This is the order that the Video Manager sees them in as well.  In the Media
> Settings, I have tried the option of "Gallery Mode Browses Files" (don't
> remember exactly as I'm at work and not in front of the box).  It still
> doesn't show the videos in alpha order.  I didn't have this problem when I
> was at .19.  I am at Mythdora 4.0 .20.2 for SchedulesDirect.  Any help would
> be appreciated.  Thanks!
>
> Jim
>
>
> PS: Love that Myth!
>
>

There's an art to getting them to display correctly.   By "art", I
mean you have to misname them, as a general rule.  It sorts them as
the titles indicate they should be sorted, but that doesn't always
result in the order that makes sense by the cinematic logic.  The
solution is to misname them into an order that does make sense:

Alien 1: Alien
Alien 2: Aliens
Alien 3: Alien³
Alien 4: Alien Resurrection

The other option is to nuke them from orbit; it's the only way  to be sure.

Ryan