[mythtv-users] MythTV and BitTorrent?

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 16:12:36 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Will <will at st0rage.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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 :-)


Miro is nothing more than a nice RSS feed downloader + Gstreamer as a video
player.  All of this is present in Myth as MythNews + the Internal player.
All that's needed is the background downloading piece which I have on my
TODO list at some point.  Integrating miro isn't really needed when you can
put the feeds from miroguide.com into MythNews.

Kevin
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