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jedi at mishnet

Jul 6, 2007, 12:22 PM

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Bulk execution of imdb.pl for mythvideo

This reminded me...

A lot of what I watch has already been paid for a long time ago
and is commonly available for consumer purchase. A significant
portion of it I have already acquired for my MythVideo setup.
Some things just aren't broadcast these days but are still
available for purchase.

Anyways... I have been converting a lot of old TV to divx. That
seems to work best for TV (as opposed to movies). It's kind of
demented actually since this is the same compression format I
use for my Recordings. It's amazing what you can get out of clean
signal (from a DVD) compared to that crap that cable companies
(like DTV) like to push.


Is there a button or script that will do a bulk metadata
fetch for all new MythVideos? I will probably make one if one
doesn't already exist.
The idea here would be to just automatically apply the imdb
info for anything that retrieves a single match. It would be good
for something like this to report failures too.

I really don't want to have to babysit the GUI for hundreds
of videos.

>>
>> On Jul 1, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Kevin Hulse wrote:
>>> Madison avenue seems to think they have a right to our time or
>>> something
>>> and it simply isn't so. They need this fact beaten into them so
>>> they change their
>>> practices.
>>
>> It sort of cuts both ways. They don't have a right to our time, but
>> by the same token we don't have a right to free TV programming. It
>> gets paid for one way or another.
>
> Ever watched TV land? Ever seen the retro-mercials?
>
> Those are commercials "as content". Compared to their modern
> counterparts
> they downright pleasant. It really puts things into perspective just how
> much
> contempt the advertisers have for us.
>
> Like anything else digital, you've got to make it worth the consumer's
> time. You can't force payment or attention.
>
> There's no reason madison avenue can't produce stuff that's not going
> to send America fleeing for the bathroom.
>
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ryszard99 at gmail

Jul 11, 2007, 7:37 AM

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Re: Bulk execution of imdb.pl for mythvideo [In reply to]

if you're familiar with the command line there is mythtools available
that i've posted to this list. its not a bulk metadata fetcher, but
will get the stuff you need from tv.com.

On 06/07/07, jedi[at]mishnet.org <jedi[at]mishnet.org> wrote:
> This reminded me...
>
> A lot of what I watch has already been paid for a long time ago
> and is commonly available for consumer purchase. A significant
> portion of it I have already acquired for my MythVideo setup.
> Some things just aren't broadcast these days but are still
> available for purchase.
>
> Anyways... I have been converting a lot of old TV to divx. That
> seems to work best for TV (as opposed to movies). It's kind of
> demented actually since this is the same compression format I
> use for my Recordings. It's amazing what you can get out of clean
> signal (from a DVD) compared to that crap that cable companies
> (like DTV) like to push.
>
>
> Is there a button or script that will do a bulk metadata
> fetch for all new MythVideos? I will probably make one if one
> doesn't already exist.
> The idea here would be to just automatically apply the imdb
> info for anything that retrieves a single match. It would be good
> for something like this to report failures too.
>
> I really don't want to have to babysit the GUI for hundreds
> of videos.
>
> >>
> >> On Jul 1, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Kevin Hulse wrote:
> >>> Madison avenue seems to think they have a right to our time or
> >>> something
> >>> and it simply isn't so. They need this fact beaten into them so
> >>> they change their
> >>> practices.
> >>
> >> It sort of cuts both ways. They don't have a right to our time, but
> >> by the same token we don't have a right to free TV programming. It
> >> gets paid for one way or another.
> >
> > Ever watched TV land? Ever seen the retro-mercials?
> >
> > Those are commercials "as content". Compared to their modern
> > counterparts
> > they downright pleasant. It really puts things into perspective just how
> > much
> > contempt the advertisers have for us.
> >
> > Like anything else digital, you've got to make it worth the consumer's
> > time. You can't force payment or attention.
> >
> > There's no reason madison avenue can't produce stuff that's not going
> > to send America fleeing for the bathroom.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users[at]mythtv.org
> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
>
>
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