2009-05-10, 08:30
When we record stuff with MythTV we generally have a mix of Movies, TV Series and one-off TV shows.
It would be nice if the recorded Movies were pulled out and made available in the Movie library. Often we feel like watching a movie and having to go between our actual Movie library and the myth:// source listing is harder than it ought to be (especially since it's hard to see what are movies through the existing myth:// interface).
A simple way of doing that might be to use the current code that gets the list of MythTV recordings, but then only include recorded content that was longer than say 110 minutes (including commercial breaks). In theory that should be relatively easy to do.
Can anyone think of any reason why this wouldn't work before I give it a go? Off the top of my head there might need to be a RegExp for shows to ignore as some one off TV shows we record are longer than 110 minutes (normally sports related stuff).
Perhaps an extension would be to also add a "Movies" entry to the current list of "All Recordings", "LiveTV", "Guide", "Recordings By Title". Perhaps that "Movies" virtual directory could simply be the thing that is given a content type and then scanned to the library?
It would be nice if the recorded Movies were pulled out and made available in the Movie library. Often we feel like watching a movie and having to go between our actual Movie library and the myth:// source listing is harder than it ought to be (especially since it's hard to see what are movies through the existing myth:// interface).
A simple way of doing that might be to use the current code that gets the list of MythTV recordings, but then only include recorded content that was longer than say 110 minutes (including commercial breaks). In theory that should be relatively easy to do.
Can anyone think of any reason why this wouldn't work before I give it a go? Off the top of my head there might need to be a RegExp for shows to ignore as some one off TV shows we record are longer than 110 minutes (normally sports related stuff).
Perhaps an extension would be to also add a "Movies" entry to the current list of "All Recordings", "LiveTV", "Guide", "Recordings By Title". Perhaps that "Movies" virtual directory could simply be the thing that is given a content type and then scanned to the library?