[mythtv-users] MythTV and BitTorrent?
jedi
jedi at mishnet.org
Mon Jul 21 18:55:42 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:12:36AM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> 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.
The idea wouldn't be to have a miro-like interface in MythTV.
The idea would be to treat the channels on Miro as if they
were any other broadcast channel and setup recording rules
and have recordings available with all of the others.
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