[mythtv-users] Audio podcasts in MythNews

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Sun Jul 13 01:10:39 UTC 2008


Eric wrote:
> On 13 July 2008 01:25:23 Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:46 AM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>>> Nick Rout wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:44 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>>>>> Just upgraded to 0.21 (which went smoothly), and installed MythNews
>>>>> while I was at it.  I'm curious if there's any way to play audio
>>>>> podcasts in MythNews.  It will download them, but then it tries to play
>>>>> them using the internal video player, which of course doesn't work.
>>>> mythstream may be what you're after
>>> Looks like it's exactly what I'm after.  I grabbed version 0.18_1 (which
>>> the website says works with myth 0.2x) and, after a bit of a struggle,
>>> got it to build and install.  It looks really promising, although every
>>> so often it seems to crash and take mythfrontend with it.  I'm going to
>>> direct the mythfrontend output to a file and see if I can capture any
>>> error messages.
>> What distro are you using? mythstream is "just there" in mythbuntu and
>> knoppmyth 
> 
> And as far as I know it's just there in Fedora, RedHat (atrpms), Debian 
> (debian-multimedia.org), MythDora and MiniMyth (C parsers only). It's just 
> not in MythTV.

I finally broke down and added perl to the MiniMyth image. Of course, it 
should be unnecessary since Qt and other already required libraries have 
all the functions being provided by perl. However, with each MythTV 
release, the number of MythTV plugins using perl is increasing. As a 
result, it becomes increasingly more difficult to avoid. Therefore, 
MiniMyth now contains the MythStream perl parsers. It added an extra 
~5MB to the MiniMyth image.


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