[mythtv-users] Should MythNetVision import RSS "recordings" into the main Recordings section?

Matt Emmott memmott at gmail.com
Fri Apr 2 13:00:37 UTC 2010


On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> My test machine is a VM running on ESXi 3.5, currently with no tuners
> (although it used to have an HDHomeRun and does have recorded shows)
> and upgraded from Mythbuntu 8.10 to 9.04 to 9.10 and then upgraded to
> MythTV .23 RC1 using the Mythbuntu repos. Mythnettv didn't install on
> its own so I installed MythBrowser via Mythbuntu Control Centre and
> then installed MythNetTV via Synaptic.
>
> I went into the RSS feeds section and added a known good Podcast, NBC
> Nightly News. (http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podcast/MSNBC-NN-NETCAST-M4V.xml)
> - I was able to subscribe to it and downloaded an episode to my home
> directory at /home/matt/,mythtv/download_5053_25146.m4v. I can play
> the file with mplayer. However, when I try to browse to it through the
> MythNetTV section of Myth (Browse Internet Video - RSS Feeds - NBC
> Nightly News - File it does nothing. I'm running Mythfrontend via a
> terminal and I don't see any errors when I try to launch it. I also
> was under the (perhaps incorrect?) understanding that MythNetTV would
> shoehorn my RSS recordings into the main Recordings section of Myth.
> Was this an incorrect assumption? And if so, can I make this a feature
> request?
>
> Thanks in advance. I realize that this is pre-release code and
> understand that it does have its quirks (It's awesome, by the way) but
> was wondering if I was misunderstanding its capabilities.
>

Does the lack of response mean I'm the only one running MNV? :-)


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