[mythtv] MythScores / MythOverlay??

Matt Zimmerman mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:10:10 -0500


On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 09:48:53PM -0600, Nathan Ziarek wrote:

> ESPN has generated a page of all the sports scores for any given sport
> (http://sports.espn.go.com/SPORT/scoreboard - replace SPORT with nfl,
> mlb, nba, etc...) I looked through the source, and it doesn't look too
> tough to parse...the question is: would any one want a feature where you
> could press a button on your remote and have a box (like the OSD) appear
> on the screen that would let you scroll through the scores and/or scroll
> through automatically?
> 
> What about automatic weather lookup?

You can already do all of this without parsing HTML, using RDF data provided
by various sites.  You could even use an existing RDF scroller like the ones
from GNOME or KDE, rather than adding this to myth.

-- 
 - mdz