On Monday 17 October 2005 04:45, Lucas Meijer wrote: > Hey, > > I'm wondering what people would think of this idea: > > Implement the scheduler as an a* search. Heuristic of a found "path" > could be roughly calculated as: > > + points for a recording a show that needed to be recorded. > - points for not recording the first showing of a show. > + points for having a show recorded in such a way that it can be padded > with extra time at the beginning and end. > + points for having a program recorded by a tuner we like. > > I'd imagine the default a* algorithm could slash trough the epg search > space pretty quickly, and find the most optimal solution. > > Offcourse, it's also a good possibility I'm missing a part of the > problem that would make this implementation not make sense. > > If I'd write this, and it would work well, would it get accepted? > > Bye, Lucas
I don't quite understand what an a* algorithm is, let alone what it would do for MythTV? Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
