[mythtv-users] MythRecommend module, gathering stage... [was: Collaborative recommended viewing revisited...]

Mike Benoit ipso at snappymail.ca
Fri Oct 29 23:40:10 UTC 2004


Looks like MythTV and Bittorrent have already been merged.

http://www.torrentocracy.com/documentation.shtml

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 12:46 -0400, Andrew Plumb wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:13:54 -0700, Mike Benoit <ipso at snappymail.ca> wrote:
> > Well, I got a decent response from people when I started the
> > "Collaborative recommended viewing revisited..." thread, so I spent a
> > couple hours and completed the "first stage" of MythRecommend.
> > 
> > http://ipso.snappymail.ca:8080/mythrecommend/mythrecommend.pl
> > 
> > By default the script prints the help. If you pass it the --dry-run
> > option it prints out the data it gathers, WITHOUT sending it. Not until
> > you pass it the --send option will ANY data be sent to the central
> > database.
> > 
> > The script does create a unique id and stores it in a file for future
> > runs, the main reason is to keep database bloat down. The first time you
> > run the script, it sends all your CURRENT (not past) recordings, any
> > time after that, it only sends changes.
> > 
> > It is 99.99% anonymous, and stores NO personal information for the
> > paranoid ones out there. ;)
> > 
> > Ideally the script would be run from cron on a regular basis, nightly,
> > or once a week is fine.
> > 
> > Hopefully by the end of this weekend I will have the second stage done,
> > which will actually recommend new shows for you to watch. Can't really
> > recommend new shows to watch without gathering some data first
> > anyways. ;)
> 
> Hmmm....  Add a hook to bitTorrent and I think you'd have a winner.
> 
> My MythTV box went down yesterday (previous night actually) so I
> missed that episode of Lost (best series I've seen since Babylon5
> w.r.t. story arc).  Fortunately, someone had already converted it into
> an AVI and had it available via bitTorrent, so I can play it back on
> my PMP-120.
> 
> On the plus side, since my box did go down, it gave me an excuse to
> apply the latest accumulation of patches.  Hopefully I start getting
> better MTBR (mean time between reboot) than my current nine to ten
> days. :-)
> 
> Andrew.
> 
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Mike Benoit <ipso at snappymail.ca>
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