[mythtv-users] searching previously recorded stuff

Steve Heistand steve at heistand.org
Mon Nov 3 16:31:57 UTC 2008


On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:18:25 -0600, Glen Sagers wrote
> Anthony Giggins wrote:
> >>
> >> Steve Heistand wrote:
> >>> is there a way to search through the stuff Ive already record by
> >>> keywords or titles or anything?
> >>>
> >> I use Microsoft Access and have written a HOWTO for setting it up
> >> <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_Access>. OpenOffice Base
> >>   <http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html> provides similar
> >> facilities, is easier to set up and runs on Linux.
> >> --
> >> David
> > 
> > or you could just query the SQL directly
> > 
> > ie.
> > select * from oldrecorded where title like '%mythbusters%';
> >
> 
> Or the mythweb interface shows at least the titles.
> 

all 1200+ of them.. its too slow to load them all in 
one page and flipping through 50 pages searching is
a pain.  I suspect its best to hack up some scripts
to do direct sql searches.


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Steve Heistand
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