[mythtv-users] Group TV Shows in (Myth)Video

Harald Nehring harald.nehring at arcor.de
Mon Jan 14 16:20:11 UTC 2013


Still on 0.24 but looks like it didn't change in 0.26.

I'm trying to find the best way to present a growing number of
recorded/ripped TV shows and regular movies in (Myth)Video. I mostly use
list/gallery view and then "browse by genre". Downside is that all tv show
episodes are listed individually in their genre, cluttering e.g. the
"animation" genre with hundreds of "bob the builder" episodes, making it a
long scroll to get to "Tintin".

Alternatively we use "browse by tv/movies", which nicely structures all
the tv shows but dumps all of the movies into one flat list. Is there a
way to combine the best of both worlds - structured tv shows with movies
by genre in one view? I'm not sure I can train the family on going through
the "browse by..." procedure whenever they want to watch something, as
they don't care so much about something being a "tv show" or a "movie".

PS: Check out XBMC, they do this much more intuitively without having to
open menus once. They can even group related movies like all James Bond
titles, or the Lord of the Rings trilogy etc.



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