[mythtv-users] MythIPTV Beta 2

[ryan patterson]

On 2/19/07, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
>
> ryan patterson wrote:
> > I respectfully suggest you find a different name for your project.  The
> > acronym IPTV is already well established.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iptv  Your project has nothing to do with
> > IPTV.  Don't get me wrong, I think your idea is neat and I am going to
> > download your code and try it out.  But the name MythIPTV will confuse a
> > lot of people.
>
> Having skimmed that Wikipedia page, I think I should clarify.
>
> The confusion here is deliberate.
>
> The script as it stands now came out of mediation on the new Akimbo
> service, which is kind of like a MythTV with shows being downloaded over
> the network instead of being recorded from a tuner.
>
> The meditation resulted in the following conclusion -- that IPTV is a
> way of delivering programs over a network connection, and that the
> mechanism for doing so is irrelevant. In the case of MythIPTV that
> mechanism is RSS / ATOM feeds.
>
> (Thinking along these lines is interesting. Assuming that companies like
> Akimbo can deal with their content licensing, they're cost of
> implementation is so much lower than satellite / cable that they have to
> be cheaper...)
>
> So, to follow the Akimbo example, I could completely implement an
> Akimbo-like service on top of MythTV by:
>
> - providing an RSS feed per customer, which lists the shows they have
> requested
> - running MythIPTV on their local MythTV machine
> - using MythTV as a display interface
>
> So, why not just give up on "Video blogging" as a term, and just call it
> yet another form of IPTV? If "real" IPTV services like Akimbo would like
> to publish an API that MythIPTV can use, I would happily implement their
> services as well.
>
> Mikal


IPTV is a standard that is already defined and in use all over the world.
There is no special API that is required.  MythTV SVN already has an IPTV
tuner implemented.

Your "Video Blogging" is completely different from IPTV.  IPTV is for real
time "brodcasting" of TV (live or prerecorded) over an IP network.  Your
Video Blogging is a script for automatically downloading prerecorded video
files.  That is not the same thing at all.

Don't get me wrong I do like your program idea.  Just the name you used is
already taken.

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