[mythtv-users] MythViewer 0.01 available

John Kuhn kuhn at razorsys.com
Thu Mar 10 19:35:45 UTC 2005


this is semi off-topic but shouldnt mythtv.org have some sort of "3rd 
party apps" page so great little programs like this dont get lost in the 
frey?

--John

>MythViewer is a little program [about 300 lines of Python] that
>I wrote to browse/view/delete MythTV programs.  I've made it
>available at <http://www.visi.com/~grante/mythviewer>.
>
>If you want me to see follow-ups to this thread, do it quickly
>as I'll only be on-list briefly. I read all my mailing lists
>via gmane, and the powers-that-be refuse to allow this one to
>be carried. [I don't really understand why. All but one of the
>other other lists to which I used to subscribe are on gmane and
>none of them seem to have any problems. So it goes.]
>
>Extract from the above web page:
>
>  What is it?
>   
>   MythViewer is a little program that lets you browse the
>   database of recorded programs (both current and old) on a 
>   MythTV backend server. You can delete programs from either
>   or both the current and old recorded database tables. When
>   you delete a program from the current recordings, the .nuv
>   and .png files are also deleted from the MythTV data
>   directory.
>   
>   MythViewer also lets you watch programs by invoking mplayer
>   on the .nuv file. When mplayer exits, you will be given the
>   option of deleting the program.
>   
>  Why is it?
>   
>   I wrote MythViewer for a number of reasons:
>   
>     * I wanted to watch progams on my laptop, and the MythTV
>       frontend requires too much horsepower to run on that
>       machine. Mplayer and an NFS mounted .nuv file worked
>       fine, but knowing which .nuv file to play was
>       problematic.
>     * I wanted to watch programs in a window while I did
>       other stuff on the same computer. The MythTV frontend
>       just isn't designed to run in a window on a "normal"
>       X11 desktop with a mouse.
>     * I wanted a quick and easy way to delete things from the
>       both the current "recorded" and deleted-but-remembered
>       "oldrecorded" tables.
>     * I wanted a way to browse the recorded programs that was
>       quick, easy and displayed more information than is
>       easily shown by the MythTV front end.
>
>  
>
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