[mythtv-users] Idea for a new plugin

[dmezzetti]

I know my english is bad. Maybe you didn't understand what I wanted to say.
This wasn't meant as a replacement for mythtv (livetv) but more as 
something like mythvideo or an addon to mythvideo.
Just as a extra channel for your livetv. I'm sure it happens to most of 
us that you zap through the channels and nowhere
is coming anything you want to see. But you have a folder on your 
harddisk with more or less videos in it.
After zapping through all channels without finding anything good you can 
start selecting a movie in mythvideo, or
you just "zap" to mythchannel and there is always running a good movie.
The plugin just had to scan your movie-folder and randomly put together 
a programm guide for the day. Would be
nice to have a pay-movie-channel without paying .


Örn Hansen schrieb:

>fredag 20 juni 2003 17:06 skrev Joseph A. Caputo:
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>>>Is this all a stupid Idea ?
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>>It's not 'stupid' if it would be useful to you.  Whether it would be of
>>interest to anyone else is another story.  For me it wouldn't, but I don't
>>speak for everyone.  And since you don't sound like you're offering to code
>>it, you'd have to find a developer as interested in the idea as you are.
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>  It's not a bad idea at all, but hard to accomplish.  What if there are 
>movies on all channels at 8? ok, let's say you chose genre sci-fi as your 
>primary interest, so a sci-fi would have priority before other movies.  
>Whatif, there's a drama starting at 8, and a sci-fi at 8:30?  Wanna watch 
>both, skip the first? Fill in such spaces with some recorded data?  What if 
>it has 5 or six such spaces, in one evening ... but there are only 4 
>recordings to fill in?  And then, the nifty part ... lets say "your" primary 
>interest is sci-fi, but your wives is drama ... when you are home, "your" 
>selection is primary.  But when your not at home?  Your kids primary interest 
>may be MTV? You'd need several such "profiles" and an easy way to go between 
>them, etc.
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>  The idea needs to be laid out in detail, in how it would work, what options 
>could be chosen, how to define what ... database layout, and so forth.
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