Smart TV Schedule Creation

Hey, so I’m new to this whole featurebase forum, but I had an idea that I thought was worth discussing for implementation.

Right now, I know that Channel Surfer lets someone import playlists as TV channels, but I was wondering if that feature could be expanded to make a smart schedule of youtube videos for a single day based on a group of youtubers that the user selects.

As a simplified example, there are 24 hours in a day. The User could select let’s say 4-5 youtubers they like in a variety of genres. Personally, I watch game reviewers, gameplay videos and cartoon/animation deep dives. If I picked the youtubers ToonarificTariq, JacksepticEye,Northernlion and SuperEyepatchWolf, Channel Surfer would scan their upload list and the durations of the videos, and package them together so that a mix of those same videos play in those 24 hours.

Obviously, I’m not stupid enough to forget how complex creating that 24 hour schedule would be. I’d have to consider things like:

1. Peak times. no one actually watches 24 hours of tv consecutively.

2. Gameplay vids of a game that are split into multiple parts. the algorithm would need some way to handle a gameplay series so that the first part is first, and the second part either plays right after, or in the same timeslot the next day.

3. The videos might not even add up to 24 hours. In this case, I think you could just put on a lofi stream on youtube to cover the time. Like how old channels had times between 3-4 am where the channel just showed a screensaver with some elevator music.

4. Making sure each youtuber you added to the TV Schedule is represented equally. this would probably be some weighted metric between video count and total duration of all uploads.

5. Some way to make sure that the same videos aren’t repeated, like how Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network would run repeats of spongebob and teen titans go respectively.

6. A bunch of other minor stuff to make sure that the viewing experience isn’t compromised.

Even taking those into account, I don’t think there’s really any major roadblock that should make implementing this feature impossible? In essence, it’d basically be making a custom youtube playlist but one where you can’t choose which point to jump in. But TV is good because you don’t need to choose anyways.

Plus, the idea has plenty of layers for expansion as well, like sharing your custom channel with other watchers for a more communal experience like in the old days.