[mythtv-users] Video Catalog

[jedi]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:09:03PM -0400, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 10:47 -0600, 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?
> 
> I organize my videos by year of release, each year in a separate folder,

    That sounds like a scheme that requires you to know too much about 
what you already have. I started to split my TV shows by genre because
my top level list was starting to get pretty long and even that seemed
to be a bit awkward just to me and I was the one that sorted the list
to begin with.

> this way the list does not grow to large. The only exception to this, is
> multi sequels, so I have a separate entry for example for Star Wars at
> the same level as the year folders.
> 
> K
> 
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