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 <[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 > > >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. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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