The world-cup proved to be a very bad time to get any coding done. Nevertheless i finally managed to hack something together, that at least works for me.<br>I f you are interested in a space efficient solution to store your archived movies, you might want to have a look at
<a href="http://users.startplus.de/rawdlite/mythtv/mythcover_v002.tbz">http://users.startplus.de/rawdlite/mythtv/mythcover_v002.tbz</a>.<br>Mythcover is designed to be an "afterburner" to mytharchive generating an origami cd-case.
<br>In order for it to be called by mytharchive, mythburn.py (still) needs to be patched.<br>Details can be found here <a href="http://users.startplus.de/rawdlite/mythtv/mythcover.html">http://users.startplus.de/rawdlite/mythtv/mythcover.html
</a><br>Mythcover can also be called independently of Mytharchive, this is especialy usefull if you want more control over your coverart. I understand that eventualy we will be able to define in the edit recording screen a frame to be used as the main menu picture. This will then also allow you to define which frame to use as coverart for your archived recording.
<br>Until then i will try to iron out the remaining bugs and try to suppport anybody who feels adventurous enough to try this out. Any feedback is welcome.<br><br>I also started to work on a webinterface to provide me with the features i am missing in mythweb.
<br>I was able to set up ruby on rails to give me an overview over _all_ my movies, whether it is DVDs i own, Videos in mythvideo or mythtv recordings. This already beats my old excel sheet. From this view i can:<br>- choose to recordings and videos to put into the archiveitems table, which allows to archive this films using the mytharchive UI
<br>- create a jobfile for mythburn.py<br>- start mythburn.py to run in the background and read the progresslog (well i am still working on this one)<br>- update the metadata of my movie collection using the IMDB.<br>- doing bulkupdates/retrievals of coverart and/or metadata
<br><br>I see this effort more as an prototype to find out what is needed in mythtweb than to actually build a proper mythtv application. It was also rather interesting to see how easy and fast it was to use Rails to achieve this. If anybody is interested in this aproach, i will of course share my code.
<br><br>rawdlite<br> <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 31/05/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">tom roth</b> <<a href="mailto:rawdlite@googlemail.com">rawdlite@googlemail.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;">
<div>I plan on extending mytharchive to facilitate the physical storage and organisation of the media.<br>Here is a first outline <a href="http://users.startplus.de/rawdlite/mythtv/MythCollection" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://users.startplus.de/rawdlite/mythtv/MythCollection
</a>.<br><br>comments welcome.<br><br>rawdlite<br><br>
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