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

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 20:47:02 UTC 2008


2008/7/21 Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>:
> 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?

You seem to be proposing some sort of mythical convergence device :)

Regardless of the source of, or the transmission protocol used by
content providers, being able to use the search/scheduler facilities
provided by MythTV core across a multitude of sources would just
increase the usefulness of the software for me [1]. Those are the
killer features of the software IMHO.

Sometime down the road I would also love to see a Grand Unified
Interface (a GUI if you will) where my media is available from, and
managed by, a single interface. Another reason to start more serious
attempts at understanding the code...

Nick

[1] others might like it too. It might be impossible to implement
well, or at all, though.

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