[mythtv-users] Amazon Prime on MythTV

[David Schlenk]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:06 PM, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:23 AM, David Schlenk <mythtv at schdav.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:20 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
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>>
>> I scratched my own itch and wrote a grabber for Amazon. So far just
>> have tree view working but hopefully I'll get searching implemented in
>> the next week or so.
>>
>> It relies on screen scraping but the ToS didn't seem to prohibit it.
>> Anyway, I'll get it cleaned up and ready for public consumption soon.
>> Just thought I'd let the thread know!
>>
>> David
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>
> David:
>
> I'm happy to be a guinea pig when you are ready.
>
> George

OK! I'm getting near ready for release, just need to clean up a couple
more things. Switched from Dish to DirecTV today so that's distracting
me slightly.