[mythtv] Listings concept idea

Rob Smith kormoc at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 18:39:59 UTC 2007


On 7/3/07, Chris Ribe <chrisribe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Without getting into the specific complexities of this idea, let me just
> echo the first reply:  while this idea might conserve bandwidth, it could
> only do so at the expense of other resources like server side computing
> power and programmer time.
>
> The effort it would take to implement such a system would vastly outweigh
> the potential benefits.

Assuming it's a web-scraper I could see limiting downloading of
detailed episodic content to ones I have schedules for, and that
wouldn't be /that/ hard, but personally, I'd like the full line-up in
at least basic form.

~Rob


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