[mythtv-users] MythTV on Ebay

Stuart Felenstein stuart4m at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 8 18:30:45 EST 2003


Well this hits home. I started out a few months ago with the notion to build HTPc's.  Guess what I discovered - it's aint easy.  Anyway I'm still determined and committed to doing this with quality and reliability.  I've spent enough years in the software industry and I can say things aren't always on the up and up with updates, bug fixes, priorities and oh yeah truth. I'm talking about supposedly respectable companies charges major denaros for license. 
 
I would love to avoid Zap2it or XMLTV, just not in a position to develop on my own today.  I was wondering about the viability of integrating TitanTV EPG , and was also looking at http://www.interact-tv.com/ .  For now though I've been holding on to the model that James talks about with updates, downloaded from my ftp server.  Outside of XMLTV, the only other EPG I've tried is Snapstream. It looked a whole lot better and seemed to contain more program description.  Maybe I need to tweak XMLTV better. 
 
As far as Ebay, well I know people who have bought good things from honest people with integrity.  No doubut there is plenty of room for buyer beware.  I've only sold on Ebay twice, and both customer and buyer were happy (not HTPC). 
 
Stuart


" James L. Paul" <james at mauibay.net> wrote:
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On Sunday 07 December 2003 14:30, Jason Ramey wrote:
> Very good question, I'd wager they have setup their own mirror to the
> zap2it listings that they will upgrade as needed. Buy It Now for 749
> dollars!? Insanity.

If I were to be so insane, instead of trying to mirror or provide zap2it 
listings, I'd avoid that whole legal and technical ratnest. I'd probably set 
up some a script to do automated package updates that checked my own server 
every day. When zap2it or something else needed updating, I'd put the 
package(s) on my server and the remote clients scripts would check in, see a 
needed update, pull down the package and update themselves.

Making it all robust and stable enough to deploy to end-user consumers at this 
point is a much larger problem, IMHO. ;)

Then again, I wouldn't expect to find a solid solution being offered on ebay, 
I'd be more likely to think the buyer is on their own after purchase. But I'm 
cynical, Over the years I've had more bad experiences than good when buying 
on ebay.

> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 5:24 PM
> To: mythtv-users
> Subject: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Ebay
>
> Was looking for a pvr-250 and came across this item.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2770366871&category=5113
>6
>
> Shuttle XPC SN41G2 Linux PVR "Tivo" System Watch, pause & record live TV
> without fees!
>
> I'm wondering what the seller is going to do every two months or so when
> zap2it breaks and we all have to update xmltv?
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