[mythtv-users] Another Idea for Myth

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 11:10, Craig Meyer wrote:
> > Andrew Hogue wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I just thought of something that might be cool for MythTV.  A nice
> >>interface for Recipes.  I was thinking of putting a MythFrontend
> >> box in the kitchen with an LCD screen and a few pushbuttons for
> >> navigation and being able to view recipes would be ideal...
> >>
> >>What do you think?
> >>
> >>-- Andrew
> >
> > Definately a winner - I could schedule what my wife cooks from the
> > couch then :)
>
> Actually I had already planned on doing a lame version of that for my
> wife as is. I was going to put a Directory in MythGallery for
> recipies and convert her stuff into jpeg images. I would really love
> to be able to impiment this the right way though. I wonder if a
> developer is out there who would take on this project? It should
> actually be very easy, but probably not one of the cooler projects.

I have always wanted a decent recipe program.  What seems to be missing 
is a standard file format for recipes.  It would be nice if recipes you 
got off the web or on a CD were in some kind of easily parseable format 
(XML?) rather than arbitrarily formatted text/html/rtf/pdf/etc.

-JAC