[mythtv-users] MythNetvision and WMV

auric auric at aanet.com.au
Wed Jun 23 11:13:38 UTC 2010


> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:35:17 -0400
> From: "Rick Nickle" <ricknickle at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythNetvision and WMV
> To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
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>   FYI. %SHAREDIR%, <player> and <playerargs> are not in 0.23  
>   %SHAREDIR% is in 0.24, not sure about the current state of <player> and 
>   <playerargs>. (Still all beta at this stage) 
> 
>   >From the few lines above I assume you have based your grabber on my twit 
>   perl one and not Doug's python ones. I have some updates which I'm happy 
>   to give you. Won't fix the core issue which is wmv is a problem. 
> 
>   Auric 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Auric!  Yes, I did base my code on yours although since the TwitTV
> site you were referencing was much more complicated than the HirTV site I
> was looking at, I mostly dumbed it down and simplified it (no search mode
> since they only retain 7 days of news anyway, etc.)  I have some other sites
> in mind that are more complicated that I might apply your Twit techniques
> to.  They are also flash-based so I probably won't have the problems I'm
> having with WMV.  Unfortunately, most of the content I'm after at HirTV and
> other Hungarian sites is WMV (it kind of looks like most of the TV stations
> over there signed up the same web design shop!)
> 
>  
> 
> I wasn't ready to dive into Python since I'm more of a native perl speaker.
> 
>  
> 
> This explains a lot.  So basically, if I want to get on the cutting edge, I
> have to move off a stable release and on to beta.  Will I also take source
> updates from a repository in that case (git?  Svn?)?  I presume there are no
> packages for the latest releases.   I have a system I can do that with, I'll
> get started.
> 
>  
> 
> One other topic along these lines.  Some of the content I'm interested are
> live video feeds, just a straight transmission of what is on a national
> network.  It seems to me that I can just make that feed an item in my
> MythNetvision RSS grabber (presuming the player can process it), but is
> there another plugin or model for that kind of content that fits better?  It
> almost would seem reasonable to virtualize a 'tuner' that can play various
> web content, and then select that with 'Watch TV' (or record it.)  I guess
> that would be implemented sort of like a driver.  Maybe it's feasible, maybe
> someone already suggested it.
> 
>  
> 
> I'd be interested in your updates, thank you!
> 
>  
> 
> Rick 
> 
Rick, Have responded to you directly with updates.

Auric



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