[mythtv-users] ABC Full Episodes on MythTV? Can it be done?

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 17:55:10 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Allen Edwards <
allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com> wrote:

> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Erik Kristensen
>  > <erik.kristensen at gmail.com <mailto:erik.kristensen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Has anyone tried to attempt a way to be able to access the main media
> >     websites like NBC or ABC do watch the full episodes they offer on
> >     MythTV? I know that MythTV has a built in web browser, but I haven't
> >     had a chance to try it out yet, I just wanted to see what the rest of
> >     the community had to say.
> >
> >
> > Hulu works fine in Firefox with the adobe flash plugin.  I don't know
> > about other sites.  I can't say the fullscreen performance is very good
> > on Linux.  As QT4.4 advances and MythBrowser hopefully is integrated
> > using the QtWebPart widget, I look forward to seeing if access to such
> > sites could be more seamless in Myth than launching Firefox fullscreen,
> > but right now that's about all that can be done.
> >
> > Kevin
>
> It probably will not work with the built in web browser as you cannot
> get flash from there.
>
> I added a button to one of the menus to launch a firefox session:
>
>    <button>
>      <type>FIREFOX</type>
>      <text>Firefox</text>
>      <action>EXEC /usr/bin/firefox</action>
>    </button>
>
>
> Put this in /usr/share/mythtv/<pick a menu>
>
> Also, if you are using spdif, it won't work in flash.  When I listen to
> a flash video, I have to switch from spdif to analog on my external
> decoder.


I don't have any problem with SPDIF on my turtle beach riviera.  Works fine
in Firefox.

Kevin
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