[mythtv] Editing the Category

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/26/2013 01:12 PM, Tom Lichti wrote:
> Mike, this looks quite promising. Are you (as in the devs) also 
> looking at using the 'tag' system to tag recordings and videos, so 
> that media is 'type agnostic', in that a tag view could contain both 
> classic 'recordings' and/or classic 'videos'? By classic I mean 'the 
> current MythTV method of identifying the different file sources'. 
> Maybe 'legacy' is a better term to use, but regardless, that would 
> make my life a lot easier in terms of being able to present a 
> converged (yes, I am using that term in full knowledge of how it 
> pertains to MythTV) view of content. I won't use the term synergistic, 
> it's too Enterprise-y :)
>
> I look forward to this functionality, I think it will be a huge leap 
> in flexibility for the project.
>

Well, I can tell you for sure that eventually videos in the Video 
Library will support tags, too--we're going to (= others are waiting on 
some work I promised to) move the schema so that recordings and Video 
Library videos both share common schema structure and metadata, now that 
Video Library is part of the core of MythTV.  At this point, moving a 
recording to Video Library would be as simple as clicking a button or 
checking a box in the UI (and, theoretically, you could choose to just 
show it in both Video Library and Watch Recordings).

As for whether you will be able to see media, regardless of location, I 
can't answer that, yet.  I really want that capability (because why 
should visitors at my house have to know whether the video they want to 
watch is in Watch Recordings or in Video Library--or for that matter, 
why should they have to know whether it's a video or music or ...), but 
other developers don't seem so enamored with the idea.  I think that may 
be because most of them are thinking "if I have to use Watch Recordings 
interface for all my 10000 videos in my collection, I'll go mad" (for 
those with large collections of video and who prefer Video Library) or 
"I used MythVideo in 0.13 and don't like the interface (or I used 
MythVideo in 0.26 and I hate the interface--not knowing they have it 
misconfigured) so I don't want to have to use it for my recordings" (for 
those who primarily use TV, now).  In my vision, we'd use the 
opportunity to improve both "views" and actually take advantage of the 
consolidation of metadata.  But, this change will be harder to "prove" 
to those who don't like the idea--especially since I'm terrible with UI 
design (but I'll cross that bridge--and ask for help--when I get to it).

Mike