[mythtv-users] MythTV and BitTorrent?

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Will <will at st0rage.org> wrote:
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>> My understanding of reality was that playing (and ripping) encrypted
>> DVDs in linux with things such as libdvdcss is illegal in the US,
>> whereas bittorrent use is not.
>>
>> A 'Rip DVD' option might make people see MythTV in a more negative light
>> than a built-in bittorrent downloading client.
>>
>> It looks like bittorrent is becoming popular for people to distribute
>> their own works to interested parties. Like the BBC for instance.
>> http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/20/bbc-will-use-bittorr.html
>>
>> No one will stop you, they will just ignore you and your contributions
>> will not be allowed into the final project. Oh, and no talking about
>> it! :)
>>
>> That seems messed up, to me.
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>
> The part that is somewhat ironic in this whole mess is that you may look at
> a product like Miro or legaltorrents and long for integration.  Miro is
> simply an RSS reader with Gstreamer for video playback.  Legaltorrents is
> just an index.  Spend a few moments and you'll find a very simply
> command-line RSS enclosure downloader for Linux and a bittorrent client that
> you can subscribe to feeds with.  Both will download content for you and put
> it in a folder that you can browse with MythVideo and, with the right player
> depending on the format, play on MythTV.  What's missing?  Metadata mostly,
> but that could probably be scripted pretty easily to pull from the RSS entry
> or the torrent and inserted into the database.  All the pieces are in front
> of you, just take a little of that open source spirit, put those pieces
> together, and distribute it far and wide for the world to enjoy.
>

Miro is in knoppmyth (or its predecessor democracy player was in the
last version anyway, I haven't tried R5.5).

It's not well integrated, just a standalone app started from a menu item.

So why didn't someone start the thread with "why doesn't someone build
a proper mythplugin for miro" and it would be interesting to see if
the response was different :-)