[mythtv] Feature Request

[Bruce Markey]

Thor Johnson wrote:
> Hmm.  I'm not sure how useful the "thumbs up/down" would be (I'll ask
> a tivo guy tomorrow what he thinks about it), but I was thinking about
> playing with the scheduler a bit to see if I can get "priorities" in 
> place.
> 
> E.g.  
> Low -> Comedy Central Presents
>        Wiggles
>        Sesame Street
>        Monster Garage
>        [Default For New Programs]
>        American Muscle Car
> 
> Dunno.  I'm thinking something like that, but so far I haven't been
> able to scrounge time up to do much...

I'd been thinking about this too. Having your choices sorted
by preference really opens up aggressive scheduling. You can
add lots of things that you might want to see 'if there isn't
anything better on'. You should be able to add dozens (or
hundreds ;-) of things and know that it will always choose
"Nova" over "Bowling for Dollars" ;-). The current mechanism
does allow remembering one show over one other but doesn't
know your preference when a new conflict crops up.

One way this might work, for example, would a column in the
'record' table to hold a number representing the preference.
There would need to be an interface to either allow sorting
the list or simply entering a preference value. The scheduler
could then choose the highest preference items for as many
tuners as are available.

This is something I'd hoped to do someday but I'd be just as
happy if someone beat me to it ;-).

--  bjm