> Thus, I see these possible features:
> - Database incl. metadata of files on disc. (Freevo basically has this.)
> - Nice search features. (Missing, but not too hard.)
> - Support for files on removable media.(1)
> - Support for plug&play metadata fetching via the internet (AFAICS, Dischi
> posted some ideas/URLs/hints for this).
> - Support for "which movie is where".(2)
> - Support for "which show is backed up" (3)
Yes, this is exactly what i want to achieve.
> (1) "Support for files on removable media"
> The main feature here is to store all metadata of the movie, except the
> movie
> data itself. The user may use Freevo's navigation and search (TODO)
> features
> to start the movie, and will be questioned to insert the disc "number ###,
> titled xyz".
Exactly !
> I think there has been partial support for this, and the
> caching and database features already integrated in Freevo and kaa are a
> good
> basis for this, but it is far from done. I think the development should
> be
> initially based on simple use cases and gradual addition of features,
> because
> in my head, it is a very complicated beast (see related ideas further
> down).
> (2) "which movie is where"
> For (1), one needs to know the media a movie is stored on. Actually, this
> is
> an M:N relationship:
> - there are single-CD/DVD movies
> - some AVIs/SVCDs are split among several CDs
> - many AVIs are collected on one DVD
> - the same movie file (e.g. .avi) may be on harddisc, on a DVD with other
> movies, and on a CD I gave to a friend
> - a movie may also be inside a compressed file (most probably a stupid
> idea,
> since it is unlikely to compress further, but I have some .avi-in-.rar
> movies
> burned on CD)
OK.
> (3) "which show is backed up"
> Given (2) (and (1)), it is very easy to mark files as
> not-yet-burned-to-disc.
> This is a common question when I want to free some HD space - which of the
> movies I have encoded and/or already burned to disc? (I often record from
> TV, cut them using avidemux, encode them with mencode, using my own
> mencode-gui python program, and finally collect them on DVD.)
In my opinion, this is of less importance compared to the 2 items above.
> Also, when all the above is done (;-p), one might add support for movie
> sharing/borrowing. E.g. if I give a CD to a friend, I could tell freevo
> about it, and when I want to watch it, it does not simply say "insert
> disc 'foo' ", but also "which you have given to Jason".
Not top priority, IMHO.
My current view on the features/use case is:
1 - To be able to populate a freevo movie database. We should offer 2
ways to do this:
- Parsing of each disc inserted into the system, with automatic
IMDB or similar grabber and user input of a disc ID/disc name
- "Import of an export", caming from a "legacy" media management
tool. I have already written some script to export AntMovieCatalog
datas to FXD for example, and 1 member of this mailing lists has
already some scripts for videoDB.
2 - Perform search against the database, with fixed scenarios:
- Title
- Actors
- Director
- Language (?)
- Year (?)
3 - Display the results in a nice way, allowing the end user to navigate
into the resulting lists and to be able to retrieve easily the disc
associated with the movie.
I think this is the scenario that is covering 80% of the need of everybody
regarding a movie database, but maybe i am wrong. Do you see any other key
features that should be offered in the first step?
Rgds, Sylvain.
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