[mythtv-users] Record a payed http stream

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/10/2013 07:21 AM, Quint wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Got a question since this year F1 is going to be payed view in the 
> netherlands. Sport1 has all the rights of it and is going to broadcast 
> it on there payed tv stations. My provider hasn't got sport1 in there 
> package so i have the only possibility to look at in on the web 
> (sport1 go). I am a big fan of f1 but not so a big fan that i will 
> stop sleeping to see the races that are not driven in europe..;) So i 
> was wondering how is it possible/are there any addons that can record 
> payed http streams in mythtv?
>

We don't really have a mechanism to do this in MythTV, 
and--generally--doing so is a violation of the terms of service of the 
site that's streaming the broadcast.  For something as long as the F1, 
that's not ideal--but it seems that the providers of that stream don't 
want to make things easy for their customers.

The closest thing we have is Mythnetvision, which will allow download of 
some video, where terms of service allow.  However, this won't really 
help with the F1--especially since Mythnetvision doesn't currently have 
the infrastructure to allow support for for-pay video via HTTP.  :(

Mike