[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] torrentocracy = rss + bit torrent + myth
Claus M. Christiansen
a at skjern-net.dk
Fri Jun 18 01:59:15 EDT 2004
Looks very nice, I must say...
Claus
Gary Lerhaupt wrote:
>I have taken Renchi Raju's mythnews plugin, revamped the GUI
>(borrowing from mythweather, adding a second page), and added
>enclosure parsing/downloading to enable bit torrent downloads from
>Myth. I am calling this project Torrentocracy.
>
>http://torrentocracy.com/files/permalink/torrentocracy-0.0.4.tgz
>
>At this stage, it works. If an RSS feed has an application/x-
>bittorrent enclosure within it, a "torrent" icon will appear on the
>entry. You can then right button to the second page where there you
>can hit the menu button and then select "Start Torrent". It will then
>download the torrent to /var/lib/torrentocracy/active/. Separately, I
>have also developed a very simple bittorrent service script (packaged
>within torrentocracy) to be placed in /etc/init.d/, which starts
>btlaunchmany.py on bootup and tells it to automatically join any
>torrent found in /var/lib/torrentocracy/active. So, basically, from
>your TV, you can just select start torrent and btlaunchmany.py does
>the rest.
>
>This is as far as I have come. My next steps are to parse the output
>of btlaunchmany so that I can show updated status in the torrentocracy
>GUI. I also want to get the "stop torrent" button working and create
>other options to move completed content out
>of /var/lib/torrentocracy/active/ and place it
>in /var/lib/torrentocracy/complete/.
>
>I very much welcome feedback/patches. There are many things left to
>do and improvements to make. Here's a list:
> - Torrent status
> - Handling of other RSS enclosure types
> - Get rid of flicker on page 2
> - Entry scrolling for full entry view on page 2
> - Date shown on RSS entry should be published time, not downloaded
>time
> - If set, automatically download new torrents
> - When RSS is auto-pulled, don't switch to the newest entry
> - HTML tag handling in RSS entry text
>
>Thanks,
>Gary
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