On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:27:59 +0000, Stroller wrote: > There are some questions in your original post that I haven't > addressed. I don't know that there's any "perfect" solution in > existence for this kind of consumer management of media files. I'm > pretty sure MythTV does some clever lookup of metadata at the IMDB and > adds cover art and stuff, but MythTV's focus is on TV recording(s), not > DVDs; it probably handles DVDs pretty well, has a decent search and > stuff, but it's a whole larger proposition than my setup, a lot more > work. Besides, you can probably rip DVDs with > `dvdbackup && mkisofs` and then later worry about databasing (whether > by importing them in to MythTV or otherwise).
MythTV uses a perl script for the IMDB lookup, you could adapt that to another setup. However, MythTV also handles all the database stuff. A recording is a recording, whether copied from a TV card or a DVD. -- Neil Bothwick "God created the world in six days. On the seventh day he also decided to create England... just to try out his Practical Joke Weather Machine."
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