[mythtv-users] Extracting info from mythtv database

[Yan Seiner]

I'd like to develop a transcoding job for interfacing myth with roku.  
(Very basic; I just want to play myth recordings on the roku.)  I have 
the transcoding part done (that's easy) what I need is a script that 
takes info from the myth database and puts it into an xml format like this:

     <movie>
       <origtitle>Avatar</origtitle>
       <year>2009</year>
       <genre>Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi</genre>
       <mpaa>Rated PG-13</mpaa>
       <director>James Cameron</director>
       <actors>Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen 
Lang</actors>
       <description>A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora 
on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and 
protecting the world he feels is his home.</description>
<path>Z:\WWW\WWW-pub\Media\Videos\Avatar.mp4</path>
       <length>120</length>
       <videocodec>mp4</videocodec>
       <poster>images/Avatar.jpg</poster>
     </movie>

Unfortunately I am worthless with perl and all the examples I've found 
are in perl.  (Perl just doesn't think like I do.)

Is anyone aware of an example script in php or python for extracting 
data from the myth database that I could use as a starting point?