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I've tried everything but am unable to get mythvideo to pull imdb data, I don't even have an option to manually enter it. Does anyone else have this same problem and/or know how to fik it? I am running Unbuntu Hardy and MythTV 0.21 and have no other problems as of yet.
 
I've tried everything but am unable to get mythvideo to pull imdb data, I don't even have an option to manually enter it. Does anyone else have this same problem and/or know how to fik it? I am running Unbuntu Hardy and MythTV 0.21 and have no other problems as of yet.
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: Support for IMDB has been dropped because it violated Terms and Conditions and they were actively fighting scrapers, poster quality etc from IMDB is now extremely low quality and resolution. We have transitioned to TMDB with 0.22. --[[User:GBee|GBee]] 14:04, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
  
 
== External Player Configuration ==
 
== External Player Configuration ==
 
Why was all the detail on configuring external players removed? That was useful info.
 
Why was all the detail on configuring external players removed? That was useful info.
 
:With 0.22/0.23 the external player support is deprecated and slated for removal in a future version. The internal player is robust and feature complete. There are no open tickets for unsupported formats or unplayable videos and to the best of our knowledge, the internal player supports everything that the other players do and ''much'' more besides. Add to that the plan to further integrate the internal player into the UI plus the introduction of video streaming from remote storage groups and users of external players are going to be at a serious disadvantage. --[[User:GBee|GBee]] 14:02, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:With 0.22/0.23 the external player support is deprecated and slated for removal in a future version. The internal player is robust and feature complete. There are no open tickets for unsupported formats or unplayable videos and to the best of our knowledge, the internal player supports everything that the other players do and ''much'' more besides. Add to that the plan to further integrate the internal player into the UI plus the introduction of video streaming from remote storage groups and users of external players are going to be at a serious disadvantage. --[[User:GBee|GBee]] 14:02, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

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Database Schema

Does anyone know where I can get the database schema for mythvideo, i am planning to extend the pluging but am having a hard time finding code documentation.

thanks


I'm curious about having the video database automatically update itself. I don't currently have a usable TV encoding card and thus am only using the frontend as an easy interface to view videos. I recently configured an RSS client to automatically download videos as they become available and would like to not have to go out to the video manager to update the database. I looked at the source and there seems to be a fairly self contained VideoScanner class which looks like it scans for files and then updates the database. I'm curious to know what issues I might run into trying to run this function from a cron job or automatically run it every so often while in the Video Gallery screen. I'll look into it a bit more but if anyone has any suggestions or reasons why this wouldn't work well please let me know.

Thanks, Blake junk@thenme.net

Also would like this. We don't watch enough TV to get cable or satelite, it's all via Bittorrent / RSS. Specifically [Miro]. I'm working on a script to do updating which will get kicked off by cron, but it's not as nice as having everything build in.

My script for syncing Miro and MythTV : http://stuporglue.org/miromyth.php

Thanks, Michael

Window manager NOT required

The article states this:

Please note that if you use MythVideo to launch external players, you must have a window manager configured and running so that window focus can change from MythFrontend to the media player

This is not the case: I don't run a window manager on the display Myth is running on and use mplayer via mythvideo. MPlayer happily runs fullscreen covering mythfrontend, lirc and keyboard focus move to it and back to mythfrontend when mplayer exits. (keyboard focus depends on where the mouse pointer is as I run dual-head)

I too don't run a window manager and MythVideo and mplayer work fine.

Randomly Play Videos?

I have a some music videos. Is there a way that I can have it randomly play videos within a folder? Thanks TazzyTazzy 21:30, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

No IMDB data, fix dose not work

I've tried everything but am unable to get mythvideo to pull imdb data, I don't even have an option to manually enter it. Does anyone else have this same problem and/or know how to fik it? I am running Unbuntu Hardy and MythTV 0.21 and have no other problems as of yet.

Support for IMDB has been dropped because it violated Terms and Conditions and they were actively fighting scrapers, poster quality etc from IMDB is now extremely low quality and resolution. We have transitioned to TMDB with 0.22. --GBee 14:04, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

External Player Configuration

Why was all the detail on configuring external players removed? That was useful info.

With 0.22/0.23 the external player support is deprecated and slated for removal in a future version. The internal player is robust and feature complete. There are no open tickets for unsupported formats or unplayable videos and to the best of our knowledge, the internal player supports everything that the other players do and much more besides. Add to that the plan to further integrate the internal player into the UI plus the introduction of video streaming from remote storage groups and users of external players are going to be at a serious disadvantage. --GBee 14:02, 1 February 2010 (UTC)