[mythtv-users] Zap2It - isn't this a two part problem?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Jun 28 20:15:50 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:35:38AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> >> However, that said, NNTP is actually a better technology for this  
> >> sort
> >> of thing.  The files are not particularly large by today's scales.
> >
> > What about rsync? This data dissemination problem seems like it would
> > be a really good fit for rsync:
> 
> I thought about that, too.  It's more centralized than what they seem  
> to be going for, though.  I think the point of NNTP is to leverage  
> the existing news server infrastructure.

It is.  but one of the points we're converging on the last day or two
is that there's not only a normalization separation between sked and
program-information data, there's a functional one, too.

Program listings don't actually change much.

Cheers,
-- jra
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