i had actually posted before with a similar idea. However i gathered
that watch recordings would be an easier place to start if you wanted
to have a different area from movies. The category splitting you
mentioned for mythvideo shouldnt be to hard to implement, perhaps the
developers can quickly implement this while someone else develops a
<a href="http://tv.com">tv.com</a> script to gather information. once again there are posts which
mention the development of the <a href="http://tv.com">tv.com</a> script.<br>
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I was thinking of just hacking away at watch recordings but never had
the time to get around to it. perhaps you could see wether it is worth
creating a seperate area for episodes.<br>
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goz<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/31/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Surye</b> <<a href="mailto:surye80@gmail.com">surye80@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8/30/05, Surye <<a href="mailto:surye80@gmail.com">surye80@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> And one final, related note, is there any chance for an arbitrary<br>> number of sub-categories? This would also help to organize serial
<br>> videos, as well as music videos, and even movies. I'd love to help<br>> work on that, but I wanted to get a feel for what the developers<br>> currently feel about such and idea, and what are the pros and cons you
<br>> can think of.<br>><br><br>Not sure on the etiquette for a self reply, so I apologize ahead of<br>time if it's frowned upon, but I wanted to add one more important<br>thought.<br><br>I believe that MythGame really has the right idea in terms of how to
<br>display a tree based on metadata. Using an easy to configure<br>formatting line, I am able to use super-categories, and numerous<br>sub-categories to branch out my games in any fashion that fits my<br>needs. MythVideo I can see doing the same thing, offering some level
<br>of metadata branching, we could say something like "type genre<br>category title". And as such, you may get "TV Series -> Comedy -><br>Rocko's Modern Life -> No Pain, No Gain / Who Gives a Buck?" as one
<br>leaf on the tree, for the first episode. Another adaptation of this<br>idea is that the tree can collapse certain levels if they don't exist<br>in the video's metadata, so that you can have "Movies -> Horror -> The
<br>Ring" as a complete branch, disregarding category (or you can use<br>them, "Japanese" in this case).<br><br>As I said, I still think some system of an arbitrary number of user<br>definable sub-categories would be a cleaner organization, perhaps this
<br>type of structure would be more practical to implement?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Surye<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-dev@mythtv.org">mythtv-dev@mythtv.org
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