[mythtv] Feature Request

Andy Davidoff dert at pobox.com
Tue Mar 4 18:10:34 EST 2003


#if Chris Martin (Dev) /* Mar 04, 19:36 */
> Not publicly accessible data I'm assuming. What web sites/Internet services
> have TV show information we could use to possibly help with matching
> favorites? Is there any extra info that we could collect from our XML feed
> besides actor info?

I posted a patch for airdates, content ratings, and "star" ratings.
In my sample feed, that only leaves audio type and subtitle type (and
implicitly, availability).  The audio-type is uniformly "stereo" in my
case, though other people may get 5.1 or something if they are using
satellite.

We could slurp actor information from IMDB, I suppose.  This would be
a real hack, though.  TiVo gets it from somewhere; I doubt they have
partnerships with every provider.

I wonder if Freevo has this feature.  I've been meaning to check out how
they get the movie poster and album cover graphics into the UI, too.

> A service dedicated to collecting show ratings from MythTV users could be
> done pretty easily...but does it make sense if our usage pool is so
> limited? Results would probably be skewed for all Sci-Fi, Action, and
> Anime shows with all of us computer geeks. :)
#endif /* dev at cgmartin.com */

What's wrong with that?  If it reflects the user-base, so much the better.
Systems like FireFly or Joker shouldn't be affected by this issue, anyway.


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