[mythtv-users] What is being worked on for 0.26?

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Preston Crow
> <pc-mythtv08a at crowcastle.net> wrote:
>> Lots of good discussion here, but I don't think we're going far enough.  Why
>> shouldn't we merge videos, recordings, photos, and games into a generic
>> "media" storage?  I'm serious here--hear me out.  (Besides, what is Mythgame
>> but a clone of Mythvideo using external media players that happen to be game
>> emulators instead of video players?)
>>
>> There are two things to consider, and they can be independent:  How do we
>> track things in the database, and how do we display them in the user
>> interface.  In general, if we segregate things in the backend database, it
>> is difficult to merge them in the user interface, but going the other way is
>> easy.
>>
>> So what we need to track media is a combination of tags and metadata. I'll
>> define a tag as a value that is either present or absent for a media file,
>> like "game" or "auto-expire."  A metadatum is much like a tag, but it is a
>> key-value pair, such as "Title: Babylon 5" or "Cutlist: <internal
>> reference>."  (Of course, my tags could just be metadata with a blank value
>> for the key, which might further simplify the implementation.)
>>
>> If we converted all our current media stores to use tags and metadata in a
>> manner like I described, we could then easily merge things in interesting
>> ways, probably including many that developers never considered.  For
>> example, a good music playlist system could be used for slideshows of
>> photos.
>>
>> The user interface could stay the same with this change, and new options
>> could be provided that combine and segregate various media types in
>> different ways.  The goal for the backend design should be to provide
>> maximum flexibility for the frontend.
>
> my only comment to that is, build the framework for this first by
> merging the obvious (recordings and mythvideo), building in the
> ability to add anything else, then merge the rest in.
>
> otherwise, I agree, it's possible, and would not be a huge paradigm
> shift once the initial merge is accomplished.
>
> my one fear though, mostly because of the debacle that is the new
> MythMusic, is that without the right people handling it, it could turn
> into a cluster<expletive>.

When I read  this thread I think, yeah merge everything and give us
plenty of tags.

For example we have had a major disaster here last year, an earthquake. I have:

* photos I took
* videos I took
* photos others took and gave to me or I downloaded from web sites
* links to web pages with quake info, news, official photos, royal
commission hearings etc etc
* recorded and saved tv news programmes from the days after the quake
* videos downloaded from youtube
* two versions of a doco movie (one broadcast on the anniversary (in
recordings) and one from the dvd which is longer and in video)

Why not be able to bring them up all at once? Bring up the earthquake tag.

Same could go for a recent holiday - photos, videos, doco on the location etc.