[mythtv-users] MythTV and BitTorrent?

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Mon Jul 21 20:29:35 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:08:35PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:55 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > > > 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.
> 
> 
> The thing is, Miro isn't TV.  It's "podcasts" which again can be handled by
> MythNews with some modifications.

Streaming sucks...

If I have the choice, I will download something so that when I watch
it it is local on my own home network and I don't have to worry about
any sort of hiccups caused by the "broadcast" being partially out of
my control.

"podcast" or "broadcast" it's much the same thing.

Capture for more convenient and more robust future use.


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