Recording should be able to be copied to a frontend and taken on the road
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This would be a plugin or script that would allow the download of a show to a frontend (complete with show metadata)
Use: If you had a laptop frontend, you could use it to select which shows you want to take with you. Those shows would download with metadata to the laptop. Then while away you could boot up the frontend on the laptop, and be able to watch the shows (and see what they are before watching). The metadata would have to be saved to either a local frontend database or perhaps just a text file. The frontend would also have to know to fall back to this file in the event that the frontend could not be reached.
Ideas: see use. A second option would be to have the plugin transcode the recording and copy it to the mythvideo directory (transcoding wouldn't be necessary, but renaming it to the show title with date and episode name would be)
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- rhpot1991
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 9.04
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- rhpot1991
- Completed by
- Thomas Mashos
Whiteboard
Would this be a full Frontend-to-Go or more of a Sync the show to a machine and use VLC to play it?
A: Ideally it would be a full frontend-to-go, although a simpler solution would be to have it download the shows and rename it with perhaps the title and (description, episode number, etc)
Zingo:
There allready exist a script for renaming the shows I think it's in the mythtv contrib folder maybe not included in the .deb file. It is named:
mythrename.pl
A start could be just to make it possible to run it periodically. (lets say every 10-30 min) all show will get sane names. If shows are not converted to .nuv and still .mpeg2 they can be viewed with just about anything. It will be a easy and great step towards the goal.
Step two could be a db mysql export of the show data to a file with the same name ending with .data or something. Then by just adding a mysql merge on the other end will do the stuff, the problem is that the frontend do not have the mysql database stuff. Maybe a real easy frontend that just collect the .data files and put them in a menu and then launce the "prefered movie player"(TM).
This features could also be a good way to move shows over to a new system when re-installing. Everytime I reistalled (getting new HW or whatever) the only thing that I want to move over has been the recorded shows. The other stuff I can/want to reconfigure for the new system anyway. And data can be move easy (like music/picture/rom collection).
UPDATE:
This functionality is now available using MythExport:
https:/
