[mythtv-users] commercial flagging idea - commercial"fingerprinting"

[Risto Treksler]

Mike Benoit <ipso at snappymail.ca> said:

> I'm not a C programmer, so implementing MythRecommend directly in to
> MythTV isn't something I have the time to do at this point. Coding the
> client/server scripts though is what I do all day long, so its pretty
> quick. Though, I'm sure a Myth developer could implement MythRecommend
> in to MythTV in no time flat, the scripts store the data in the local
> mythconverg database, so its just a matter of running a simple query and
> making the interface to it.


--PART II--

mythtv needs to draw people down the "long tail"
from "popular shows" -to-> "obscure but related shows"

i haven't used the mythrecommend script recently 
so i forget whether the perl script already does that by genre 
- ie. recommend other *less known comedies* for Simpsons viewers
- so, don't recommend CSI or Futurama, even if Simpsons watchers watch them


Basically, how do you picture the myth interface for this?

1) have a mythrecommend module accessible by: 
   "manage recordings" -> "schedule recordings" -> "recommended shows"
   - this kind of misses the point though, 
     since you have to go out of the way to do it

I think that for it to be effective 
the interface must be done on a per episode basis

--so option number 1) is out--

2) put it somewhere in the "set recording options" screen
   - where you currently have "list upcoming episodes" and "program details"
   - make option for "list recommended shows"?

3) or put it under the context menu of the episode
  -"recording options" -> "recommended shows"
  - or even put it right uner "recording options" and "job options"

either option 2 or 3 would bring up a kind of 
- a "program finder" that only lists recommended shows