2010-04-20, 07:08
outleradam Wrote:^^ It will require a separate database processor...
That sounds a bit more involved than I was thinking. I don't have any idea what the best way to get my recorded Japanese Tv shows into the XBMC db, but I was wondering if recording groups could be used.
Let me try to explain myself a little better. (Please remember at any point, I may have no idea what I am talking about!)
I want to stop flipping between Mythtv and XBMC, and use XBMC to watch everything.
Myth:// and mythbox are cool, but don't sort the Japanese named genres of course. I thought about trying to find the English genre words and replacing them with Japanese, but my EPG data is crap to start off with. The genres are rarely right, and change often.
Show names are a nightmare too. I have the discovery channel on cable (in Japan). For example, Mythbusters will be named "Mythbusters" one week, "You Tube Special MYTHBUSTERS” the next, and "怪しい伝説” another week.
Japanese Tv shows are the same. It may be ”あらびき団” one week, and "あらびき団SP" or some other variant another.
I thought your show translation settings would work, but the name changes would be a headache, and I would need to make a new translation rule for every show I wanted to record and watch in XBMC. (I have about 85 schedule rules right now)
Mythtv does a prettty good job finding shows, but I have to keep an eye on things to make sure nothing gets missed because of a wacky name.
All this chaos is viewable in the mythtv menus because of recording groups. I have the 85 rules divided into 10 recording groups. When I go to the "watch recordings" part of mythtv, the recordings are listed by recording group, not genre or show name.
Another example: My music recording group gets a lot of shows like, ジョディ・ワトリー 特集/ARTIST’S洋楽, コールドプレイ ビデオ, The Life and Rhymes of カニエ・ウェスト, and Unplugged:キーシャ・コール. Some of these shows are available in the US (unplugged) and data could be found, but others are just an hour of music videos from one artist. However, all these shows reside in the "music" recording group.
I use the metallurgy theme in mythtv, so the "music" recording group is on the left side of my recordings screen, and on the right is a long list of the different shows in that group.
I think you can see the trouble I would have trying to get each show into the XBMC database. Sure, a seperate "data input script" would be an answer, but another step seems unnecessary.
Couldn't recording groups be treated like shows and added to the XBMC db? So I fire up XBMC, go to tv shows, and see the daily show (from torrent), mythbusters (actually a recording group), music (recording group full of music video related stuff), The sopranos (from DVD), and news (a recording group that contains 3 shows).
Going into "news", "music" or "mythbusters" would show a list of shows with no meta data other than the name and air date. The sopranos and daily show would have all the data that XBMC can find.
I hope I have made my question a little more clear. I don't know if this is a good idea, or even possible, but thank you for taking the time to humor me.