[mythtv-users] How to get current movies into myth for later recording?

[Brian Wood]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 16:46:16 Michael Rice wrote:
> Frequently I will hear about a movie that I'd like to record someday
> when it ends up on TV/cable.
> I can manually create a recording rule but when your interface is a
> remote it's a little painful.
> I've used tvwish in the past but shelling to the myth box and adding
> the title to the list isn't
> always easy (especially for my wife).
>
> What I think might be nice is a myth plugin where you could browse
> through movies
> and see a description and if it was interesting push a button to add a
> recording rule.
> This wouldn't just contain movies from your program data but from an
> external database.  It would have different views such as "New Releases",
> "Now Showing", as well as by name, genre, year, etc.
>
> Is anyone aware of such a plugin out there somewhere?
> If not is there a database that myth could use without violating anyone's
> TOS?
>
> If this hasn't already been done by someone and there are databases that
> would work I'd certainly be interested in implementing it.

I think there was something called TVWish, or something like that. I don't 
know if it's still around or not, but it was similar to what you are 
describing.


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Brian Wood
beww at beww.org