On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:39:50PM -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:40:15 -0800, Brad Templeton
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
> >
> >
>
> This sounds like a really cool feature.
>
> I'd like to try it, but is there an rpm available or will there be one for
> FC3?
An RPM could be made easily enough but as currently implemented it would
not do a great deal for you. The only "install" it would do for you is
to put the program in the cron and pick an official directory for the scripts
to run in. I am making a script to do that, though later
I plan to have it invoked after mythfilldatabase rather than the cron.
The program does not get installed into any special directory, it runs where
you unpack it. You can test run it just by unpacking and typing make.
The reason is that you are expected to customize the wishlists for yourself.
An RPM suggests that people would not be doing that, and that makes less
sense as I don't expect everybody to have the same tastes.
If you just unpack it, do "make createpersonal" and edit personal/runwish
to include the name of your directory, you can now put it in the cron
to do the default behaviour, which is to record all movies, pilots and
famous episodes in the lists.
However, I think it's worth going over the movie list in your text editor
of choice and deleting the movies you have seen or know you don't want to
see. Right now on a typical cable feed it will queue up Gladiator,
High Noon, Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Platoon,
Hunt for Red October, The Matrix, Toy Story 2, Young Frankenstein, Chinatown,
and The Blues Brothers along with two famous episodes of Seinfeld, Star
Trek, E.R., Buffy and pilots of Andy Griffith, South Park, Angel and
South Park.
All superb stuff -- but I've also seen all of them
so I wouldn't want it filling even the spare disk with 'em.
Though admittedly with mythweb it is also easy to let it queue the movies
and then you can tell it you have alrady seen them ("never record") so
it's not so bad.
Packagers are welcome to make debs/rpms/ebuilds etc. However, after
people have tested the program for a while, I will also work to integrate
it into mythtv, so it's called after mythfilldatabase and at least some
basic UI exists to turn on whether this happens or not. No matter what
I do you'll still want to customize at least your movie wishlists.
However, I am talking with a professional TV critic about preparing files
for this program based on his newspaper columns. I may put that in
the default config, so your box records what he says is the best TV on
each night. Hoewver, you will still want to say how much you trust him.
For example, I am going to ask him to put a rating on each recommendation
(such as 4-stars or 3.5 stars, or 7 out of 10 or whatever.) The program
allows you to say, "Record what this critic says but only if he gives
it a score better than 8" and so on. But I don't want to set that number
for you.
As noted, this uses an undocumented feature of Myth to put these recordings
in a special "autoexpire" class that causes them to expire before any
recordings you select directly in myth, so they are effectively in
"spare" space, if you want it.
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