[mythtv-users] TV-Series DVDs

[Christopher X. Candreva]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Nathan A. Smith wrote:

> Reading the archives, I don't see any recent discussion of how people
> handle importing, separating, tagging, etc -- TV series DVDs.  Since

I've been thinking about this for a while. The question that keeps comming 
to my mind is, Why are TV, Video, and music separate modules at all, and 
could they be combined into a single view ? Things I would like to do:

o See episodes recorded OTA and from DVD in a single list.
o Not record episodes or movies I already own on DVD.
o Mix MP3 and music video files, with visualizations for non-video files
o See selections from a movies soundtrack album in the same place as the 
  movie.
o Catalog non-ripped DVDs, and when selected be given information as to 
  where the disk is stored. (which I know I would have to enter).

The trick I think would be the database. Designed properly, you should be 
able to either pull out the three separate views we have, or present a 
unified interface as I described above, along with things I haven't thought 
of. 

IMDB does already list TV episodes so it is possible to get that 
information. What would really be nice would be a cross-reference of 
Schedules Direct IDs with IMDB ids. I suppose this could be built over time 
by the community, possibly ala the Amazon Mechanical Turk.


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