[mythtv-users] Video Catalog

[Tony Baca]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Brad DerManouelian <bderman at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Tony Baca wrote:
>
> My Video collection is getting quite large.  The Wife does not like to
>> scroll through the videos looking at what there is, honestly, I don’t like
>> to either.
>>
>> I want to make a “card catalog” of the videos.  I would like to pull from
>> the database information and print it on a card, or piece of paper, put the
>> paper in a three ring binder.  As I add new vides, I can print a page and
>> insert it in the proper place in the binder.
>>
>> Two questions:
>>            1) Has anyone done something similar or solved the problem in a
>> different manor?
>>            2) What tools would you recommend to someone who knows only the
>> very basics of sql?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Wow! Sounds kind of backwards to me to move from a database to printed
> pages. How do you normally browse your videos? I do mine by Genre. Simply
> create a folder for each Genre of your choosing and move your videos to the
> appropriate one. Then when you bring up the Videos page, you are presented
> with a genre list.
>
> You can get even more control with symlinks. At the top level, make Genre
> folders with names that force them to the top of the list (~Action, ~Comedy,
> ~Drama, etc.) Then place the original files at the top level for those that
> like to scroll through long lists of movie names and put a symlink into
> their appropriate genre(s).
>
> Or the simple built-in solution: make sure all your genre metadata is
> filled out appropriately for each video and filter/search for videos.
>
> -Brad
>
thanks for the suggestion.  I hear what you are sawying about going
backwards!  For me it is about what increasing the WAF!  Mine would rather
look at paper, then have to press buttons :)

I do need to update the metadata.  I could use symlinks to put video into
multipule genre, that may help.
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