[mythtv-users] Integrating non-traditional program sources into MythTV (won't tell you what it 'was:')

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Mon Jul 21 20:37:41 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:25:05PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:08:35PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> >    The thing is, Miro isn't TV.  It's "podcasts" which again can be handled by
> >    MythNews with some modifications.
> 
> Miro may be a bad example for this, but I'll swing for the fences
> anyway...
> 
> Let's suppose that I have a whole bunch of rules set up to catch and
> record programs by actors whose work I admire.
> 
> Let's further suppose that some of these actors are political
> activists... Rob Lowe, for example.
> 
> I'm sure you can understand why I would like, as a MythTV user and Miro
> watcher, to have my MythTV box be able *automatically* to catch any
> Miro program that might have, say, an appearance by Lowe on behalf of
> some (Democratic :-) candidate, and automatically record it.
> 
> The ability to wedge such program data from non-traditional feeds is
> slightly more important than the ability to use the internal player
> instead of Mplayer to watch them... but that will become less true as
> well as multi-user Myth gets closer to reality and the internal player
> picks up just one more extra feature over external ones.
> 
> Does this clarify what people might be looking for and why they might
> want it a bit better, without raising people's hackles?

...then this becomes Miro integration or YouTube integration or
Hulu integration or Unbox integration we're suddenly in the same
boat as AppleTV rather than Napster.



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