[mythtv] Paid for Plugin dev?

Erich Nachbar mythtv at nachbar.biz
Fri Apr 17 21:42:35 UTC 2009


Thanks Alain! Found it and will take a look at it.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Alain Ramos <alainramos23 at gmail.com>wrote:

> There is a great script called TVwish that does just that. Google it. Maybe
> someone can come up with a way to integrate it into a Mythtv plugin.
>
> -Alain
>
>
> On Apr 17, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
>
>  On Friday 17 April 2009 1:14:20 pm Erich Nachbar wrote:
>>
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply!
>>>
>>> Whenever I talk to my Tivo friends they rave about its recommendation
>>> service and with MythTV cutting out the commercials (love this feature!)
>>> I
>>> feel that sometimes it is hard to know what interesting stuff is coming
>>> out.
>>>
>>> My background is highly scalable web apps & distributed computing and I
>>> have computed recommendations in the past, so I can take care of the
>>> backend-side of things fairly quickly.
>>>
>>> However I would need someone who is writing a plugin that would allow
>>> people to interact with the system and to provide their activity stream
>>> to
>>> me, so I can compute recommendations based on what similar people have
>>> watched.
>>>
>>> I looked at the desired feature list and it seemed like something people
>>> are looking for. So if there is interest, I can pull some more
>>> requirements, wireframes together for the bidding process.
>>>
>>
>> This has come up before (and it would be a nice feature to have), so I'll
>> just
>> start out by saying that for such a plugin to be accepted into the main
>> myth
>> source, the server side will need to be:
>> a) open source
>> b) run on mythtv.org
>>
>> Also, please note that this really wouldn't be possible as a 'plugin', it
>> would need much deeper hooks than are readily available with the existing
>> plugin interface.
>>
>> Isaac
>>
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