smart timer programming ... a few thoughts

[Martin Hammerschmid <martin@hammerschmid.com>]

the idea for an additional tool for vdr came into my
mind a while ago. I was thinking if some kind of
automatic timer programming was possible.

let's assume that tv listings can be fetched from
some web page or whatever. then information like

channel_name, date, begin_time, end_time, genre, 
programme_name, [url with more info]

could be imported to a local data base with a
web interface (apache/php/mysql for example).

when vdr is used for watching, the log files
could be analyzed to find out what one likes
( tv and replay sessions). by checking the local
database it should be able to find out the watched
programme's name as well as it's genre. how long
something was watched could be used as a kind of
weight too.

with the gathered information (it should still
be possible to manually mark something for
recording on a web interface ) new a timers.conf 
for the next day/week is generated automatically. daily
news or favorite series could be found by their name,
when there is some disk space left it could be
tried to record something similar by guessing somehting 
that the user is probably interested in
(genre matches the user's taste ...)

after using it for a while the harddisk should be
full of interesing things anytime the user
want's to watch something.

can you imagine that an application as described above
could work with useful results with data taken from
free tv listings?

Martin

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