Video library: TV Other?
#1
I have not been able to find any provisions for this yet. However, I'm to a point in MythSExx where I've got the TV shows with Season and Episode available down to a science, and I'm almost done with grabbing information from MythTV database for Labeling Movies with Year as soon as they are recorded.

Two things are left....

Say you want to record the Football game and watch it with your friends, or maybe you think Robin Meade on Headline News morning show is really hot, or maybe you want to watch a 15 minute discovery channel special.

Here's how I view it.
XBMC add source, content TV Other/General Recordings
create rule
File Football under Football
File News under News
done
XBMC will search for a graphic for football and News from a website or allow the user to pick one of the options provided, then pick a random non-commercial portion of the video as the icon.


So, what to do about all the other recordings which people would like to see on XBMC?

and..

How to get commercial time data recognized by XBMC? Meta tags?
Use mythicalLibrarian to make a library out of your MythTV files. Leave the recording to MythTV and use XBMC as your library.
Installation and Instructions:http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=MythicalLibrarian
Technical Support:http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=65644
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#2
Anything? Is there even provisions for commercial skipping built in yet?
Use mythicalLibrarian to make a library out of your MythTV files. Leave the recording to MythTV and use XBMC as your library.
Installation and Instructions:http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=MythicalLibrarian
Technical Support:http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=65644
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#3
About the commercial skipping -

XBMC does recognize EDL lists (http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=EDL). When using the built in myth:// source XBMC pulls in the myth commercial skip information directly from the database and creates a virtual EDL to be used while watching.
I can confirm that while this works, you need to be using the dvdplayer, which skips something horrible when playing through the myth:// source (there are some trac tickets on this but I don't think it relevant to link them here).

Since your script effectively copies/links the file so that it can be played directly, you could also create an EDL list from the myth database to be placed in the directory with the file. The wiki entry has lots more info on the content of the file, but I think as long as it is the same name as the file, in the same directory, and has a .edl extension it should work.

About all your other suggestions - in order to do this kind of category flagging of video files I think you'd need XBMC to implement some of the category based content settings ideas I've seen floating around the forums lately. Basically instead of 'Movies' and 'TV' you could create custom content names and set the source on directories so that in the video library you could have 'Movies', 'TV', 'News', 'Home Movies' and the like. Then you could set a scraper (if applicable), create your own NFO files, or just let the filename sit in the list and have it generate a thumb.

Also, quick thought about your thumbnail generation suggestion. You could just have your script pull the thumbnail that myth generates and rename it with the correct name for the show, might save some work there.
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#4
Sweet. This puts me one step closer to having a single computer with XBMC as a front end for MythBackend. an all-in-one media center computer which is far superior to flipping the tv back into TV mode.

Just need to find a way to integrate non-movie non-series content. I can provide categories such as "news" and "sports" as the $1 in the name for XBMC.
Use mythicalLibrarian to make a library out of your MythTV files. Leave the recording to MythTV and use XBMC as your library.
Installation and Instructions:http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=MythicalLibrarian
Technical Support:http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=65644
[url=http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?tid=1081892][/url]
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#5
outleradam...

i found same info as robweber suggesting...

check out http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=EDL_(commerc...er_support

and

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Removing_Commercials
(specifically the command line section, you can extract this from mythconverg pretty easily without accessing mysql...)

i've created an edl for one of the shows I used MythSExx to move, but i cannot get xbmc - on either a mac or a pc to correctly process the EDL file...

see my post here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=64507

-jay
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#6
I cannot get any EDL/comskip data to work with XBMC live as a file in the same folder as the mpeg. I want to get this running.

I am subscribed to this thread.
Use mythicalLibrarian to make a library out of your MythTV files. Leave the recording to MythTV and use XBMC as your library.
Installation and Instructions:http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=MythicalLibrarian
Technical Support:http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=65644
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#7
A did a bit more research into your category flagging idea from the top post and came up with a working prototype (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=64687).
Not sure if this will ever see it into a mainstream release, but I know a lot of people have been asking for it so I thought I'd take a stab at it.
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