[mythtv-users] Myth Ideas

[Mr. Myth]

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>>MythDVDDatabase
>> - this would be a nice option to add to the MythDVD module
>> - be able to add movies in your collection to the database and retrieve
>>the IMDB info as well
>> - option to export or put on the web, publish web page for your database
>> - can input UPC code, look it up on the web like the cuecat software has
>> - integrate a barcode reader if you have one or use your webcam as a
>>barcode reader... this would be a very simple vision algorithm to
>>implement
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>This I like ... I've given lots of thought into an opensource/non-windows
>alternative to DVDProfiler ... a Myth UI would fit the bill.
>www.dvdempire.com has UPC values on their web pages, so, scrape that and you
>have the beginings of a UPC to dvd info catalog. A sophisticated perl writer
>could get UPC to imdb refernce fairly quickly ...
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>This should also include DVD changer support. I have a Kenwood DVD changer,
>and developed a library to implement it's serial protocol
>(www.sf.net/projects/juken), SlinkE's could also be used for Sony changers.
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I have been using mydvds to catalogue my dvds.  It uses a mysql ( or 
others I believe ) backend to store info about what DVD's you have.  
Entering new dvds is easy.  If you have a cuecat scanner, just scan your 
dvds and it will look up everything from IMDB for you.  You can search 
your list or the entire DVD catalogue.  It is pretty neat.

You can find it at: http://mydvds.wesmo.com

It seems like it would pretty easy to either:
1) Build a myth module to talk to the mydvds database and extract any 
info on the fly.
2) Just use mydvds from mythbrowser

If you went with route 1, then you could do other things like contolling 
external DVD jukeboxes, etc.
Michael