[mythtv-users] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

[Andy Long]

This definitely looks badass.  I for one will be trying this.  Thanks
for the new toy!

-Andy


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:40:15 -0800, Brad Templeton
<brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> 
> This is to announce a new add-on program for Myth aimed at managing
> giant wishlists of shows to record, including lists imported from
> others.
> 
> The program, TVWish, can be found with tarball and documentation at:
> 
>     http://www.templetons.com/brad/myth/tvwish.html
> 
> >From that web page, a sampling of things you can do with it:
> 
>     * Generate/grab a list of the hundreds of top movies you wish to see
>     someday, and arrange for them to be recorded if they are ever on TV.
> 
>     * Look for and record the pilot episodes of the top TV series
>     of all time, in case you missed them, or want to try them out.
> 
>     * Grab a list of all the episodes of a TV show with rankings, and then
>     record and watch only the best episodes, avoiding the turkeys. Do
>     anything from all but the worst on good series to only the very top
>     on occasionally good series. I call this an "abridged" TV series.
> 
>     * Record all of a series except for a list of exceptions -- episodes
>     you have already seen, or known turkeys.
> 
>      * Record episodes of a series in order, even if they are not airing
>     in order.
> 
>      * Import lists generated by others -- critics, friends, other
>     watchers even programs that amalgamate -- by fetching from a web
>     URL. A critic you trust can make a recommendation in the morning that
>     causes your recorder to automatically record the show that night.
> 
>     * Place wish results in a lower priority and autoexpire class so
>     they only go into spare disk space, never interfering with more
>     important recordings.
> 
> Right now this is implemented as a perl script you run by hand or from
> the cron.  There are detailed setup instructions that should be easy
> for anybody with moderate linux experience.  Sometime down the road
> a web-based GUI will be developed that will be slightly less powerful
> but easier to learn.
> 
> Installed by default, it will make MythTV record any movies from the list
> of the top 300 or so, plus the pilot episodes of the top 100 series of
> all time, plus a number of the most famous TV episodes of all time.
> There are sample files for popular series to easy add abridged viewing
> of them.  It's some minor work with a text editor to remove movies you
> have seen from the movie lists etc.
> 
> This works well with Myth .16 and .17 with DataDirect.   It should
> work partially with .17 and other sources but some tweaks are needed
> and I appreciate such patches from overseas testers.
> 
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