Craig Tinson wrote:
Shawn Willden wrote:
yup.. can do that easily.. remember yer gonna need a *huge* amount of disk space for that kinda sized library
Yep. Luckily, 200GB drives are ~$100 (just bought one for $80), and xvid produces results that are good enough for the kids at between 500MB and 1GB per movie. So I don't think that's all that bad. I shouldn't need more than about $0.50 of disk per movie, on average. That's on par with DVD-Rs (my current solution to the kids-destroying-movies problem), and much more convenient.
after you've ripped a film - in mythfrontend - go into Setup / Video Manager .. this will scan the directory for any new films and allow you to do certain things - like imdb lookups etc. it then adds them into the database and will appear in your "Watch Videos"
Ahh, very nice. IMDB lookup doesn't seem to work, even after I edit the movie title, but if I do a lookup on another computer and enter the IMDB# manually, I get all the stuff.
I notice that I can also edit a "category", but those categories don't seem to show up when I go to watch the videos. Is that because there aren't enough videos? (Only two at the moment). I'm definitely going to need to be able to categorize, because I imagine I'll have 150 or so videos on-line.
yup.. if all the machines are running nfs/smb etc.. you can have your central file server share its video directory.. then mount them on the frontends and save the dvdrip's over the network (then see previous note)
Cool. I think this is going to work nicely.
Can you give me a hint as to how I go about customizing the MythTV menu options? I don't need any of the stuff about watching TV or watching/managing recordings, etc. so I'd like to remove it.
Thanks,
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