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

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Jul 21 20:48:55 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:37:41PM -0500, jedi wrote:
> > 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.

I'm not sure precisely what your point is, there, jedi. 

Could you vague that up a bit for us, please?

Cheers,
-- jra
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