[mythtv-users] mythstream workaround?

Paul Harrison mythtv at sky.com
Wed Mar 10 23:11:37 UTC 2010


James Miller wrote:
> The solution offered at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Internet_tv has
> turned out to offer a semblance of mythstream's video capabilities.
> That is, it allows you to tune in one or a few TV streams--once you've
> found the URL/URI/MRL (which turned out to be hiding pretty much in
> plain sight in the case of the one I was having trouble with
> yesterday). It's a bit of a kludge and is also not too intuitive: why
> would you go looking in the Videos folder for streaming internet
> television? But anyway it can do in a pinch for one or a few stations.
>
> On the shoutcast/audio front I'm still casting about for some
> workarounds, though. An ideal solution might be to get something like
> last.fm or Pandora to stream some personalized station, depending on
> taste. But from what I've gathered in my searching, it is no longer
> possible to stream last.fm through mythtv: is that correct? I had
> found some older write-ups detailing how to use lastfmproxy in
> conjunction with mythtv (see
> http://www.mythdorawiki.com/wiki/index.php/Lastfm2myth ) but it seems
> last.fm made some changes in service that have rendered this solution
> obsolete. But I want to ask all the same whether last.fm or any other
> streaming audio service like Pandora, etc, can be made to work with
> mythtv?
>
> Finally, it seems at least shoutcast stations/genres can be accessed
> through VLC (see, for example, the article at
> http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Replace-Last.fm-with-VLC
> for a description of that). Could VLC, with a list of shoutcast
> genres, be somehow invoked through mythtv menus?
>
> Input will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> James

I plan to add shoutcast support to MythMusic during the re-write to
MythUI. There's already a couple of patches floating around to do that
for the current version of MythMusic. One is in trac
http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7868. The other is Eskils patch at
http://www.eskil.org/mythtv/


Paul H.


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