[mythtv-users] Amazon Prime on MythTV

[Matt Emmott]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Robert McNamara <
> robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > It does look like they support Linux as a platform.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> http://ostatic.com/blog/amazon-com-includes-linux-users-in-new-movie-streaming-service
> >> >
> >> > I may pay the $79 just to show my support. I've been looking for some
> >> > kind
> >> > of scraper via xbmc / navi-x / Boxee / Plex but haven't found anything
> >> > yet.
> >>
> >> It's been out for like 48 hours.
> >>
> >> Why not write a grabber for MythNetvision?
> >>
> >> Robert
> >
> > Amazon VOD's been out since at least 2008.
> >
> > I'm dumb and don't know how to write code.
>
> Amazon Prime's free VOD is a different animal in most respects (ie,
> there's not a billing trransaction per-viewing), and has been out
> since like, Monday.
>
> Anyhoo, it would be nice to see people at least feign an interest in
> our plugin which is capable of such a thing (at least here on our
> lists) before hunting for a totally unrelated grabber on a totally
> unrelated product.  Just MHO.
>
> Robert
>
>
Heh, fair enough, good points on both counts. I'll see what's involved in
setting up a grabber but I'm sure I'll break something.
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