[mythtv] Feature Request

Chris Martin (Dev) dev at cgmartin.com
Tue Mar 4 19:22:46 EST 2003


That's pretty cool...although I'm not sure if I'd want Myth to take up ALL of my available space - maybe a user definable size controlled in settings. 

I'd be interested in implementing this, but I first need to understand a little more about how the "suggested" shows would be found (using the available program data). 

As I am (trying to) understand from the earlier posts, is that a rating of -3[very bad] to +3[very good], with 0 as "unrated" would be given to combinations of genres... 

Eg. (The Simpsons) Comedy, Animation = +3 rating
    (Harvey Birdman) Comedy, Animation = +3 rating
    (Knight Rider) Action, Drama = +1 rating
    (Touched by an Angel) Drama = -3 rating

So, the genre combo ratings would be:
    Comedy, Animation = +6
    Action, Drama = +1
    Drama = -3

Which makes sense that if it stumbled upon another Comedy, Animation show I'd want it to suggest it to me first. But what happens if a show just has a genre of "Comedy". Would genre combos modify singular genre values? What would occur in the Action, Drama and Drama only example? Or am I making this too complicated... Maybe at the start the suggestions are based on matching genre combinations, and later on we can figure out some better heuristics.

BTW, I want a myth box that I can control with a voice controlled watch...and be mounted in a car so it can pick me up from work and rescue me from harsh situations. ;)

-Chris Martin

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:15:10PM -0800, J.R. Hyde wrote:
> The tivo suggestion feature was originally based around just the genre
> category that every shows info provided. So you would rate individual
> shows with 1-3 thumbs, either up or down, and tivo would record
> suggestions based on those genre's you gave thumbs up or thumbs down.
> Shows usually belong to more than 1 genre (action, scifi, or animated,
> children etc) so it worked reasonably well. TiVo has been enhancing the
> suggestion features for awhile now so it uses aggregate data obtained
> from everybody and it has gotten quite a bit better, at least for me.
> For some people it got a lot worse according to reports on the
> tivocommunity boards /shrug. 
> 
> The big difference between how mythtv and tivo work is tivo doesn't
> provide an available space indicator. The only way to know how much
> space you have available on a TiVo is to leave suggestions on. The TiVo
> will try and always be recording new suggestions and shows, as long as
> it wasn't doing anything else of higher priority. So if you have a ton
> of suggestions to watch, you know you have quite a bit of free space, if
> you have zero suggestions then you are either out of freespace or darn
> close. At first this sounded like a kludge to me, but in practice it
> works wonderfully. I had no idea futurama was being broadcast again (I
> don't watch commercials of course) but the tivo picked it up as a
> suggestion which was a pleasant surprise. This and other things it has
> caught have made me a fan of the suggestion system. 
> 
> For mythtv to be able to handle suggestions, it would have to have some
> kind of freespace limiter or management system on top of the suggestion
> engine being added. Another neat thing about how tivo handles
> suggestions is even if you turn off suggestions, you can still see what
> it would have suggested to record at any time. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Chris Martin (Dev)
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:20 PM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Feature Request
> 
> Could you describe this functionality for us non-tivo folks... I'm
> guessing that it's a rating system of some type, but for what purpose?
> 
> -Chris Martin
> 
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:31:45PM -0500, Joe Osowski wrote:
> > Has anyone started / is there already a feature in MythTV like the
> Thumbs Up
> > / Down functionality of Tivo?
> > 
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