[mythtv] [RFC] MythNews Multimedia Support

[stanley kamithi]

On 11/9/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>
> I have been working recently to patch MythNews to support multimedia
> aspects of RSS.  So far I have added
>
> * Support for display of <image> tag on a feed including caching image
> locally
> * Improved HTML parsing of descriptions by not stripping everything in
> tags or CDATA sections
> * Support for display of <media:thumbnail> tag on an article
> * Launching mplayer for streaming <enclosure> and <media:player> tags
> (only tested with video)
> * Added video sources for the below video sites
>
> Right now it works well enough to display video from YouTube, Google
> Video, G4TV and Cnet TV.  With a recent version of mplayer the streaming
> works.


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Kevin

Looks like a cool thing.  I use mythnews a lot so this would be a nice
addition. Please create a ticket so its easier to download the patches and
follow the progress.

thx.
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