On 2/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Still</b> <<a href="mailto:mikal@stillhq.com">mikal@stillhq.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
ryan patterson wrote:<br>> I respectfully suggest you find a different name for your project. The<br>> acronym IPTV is already well established.<br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iptv">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iptv
</a> Your project has nothing to do with<br>> IPTV. Don't get me wrong, I think your idea is neat and I am going to<br>> download your code and try it out. But the name MythIPTV will confuse a<br>> lot of people.
<br><br>Having skimmed that Wikipedia page, I think I should clarify.<br><br>The confusion here is deliberate.<br><br>The script as it stands now came out of mediation on the new Akimbo<br>service, which is kind of like a MythTV with shows being downloaded over
<br>the network instead of being recorded from a tuner.<br><br>The meditation resulted in the following conclusion -- that IPTV is a<br>way of delivering programs over a network connection, and that the<br>mechanism for doing so is irrelevant. In the case of MythIPTV that
<br>mechanism is RSS / ATOM feeds.<br><br>(Thinking along these lines is interesting. Assuming that companies like<br>Akimbo can deal with their content licensing, they're cost of<br>implementation is so much lower than satellite / cable that they have to
<br>be cheaper...)<br><br>So, to follow the Akimbo example, I could completely implement an<br>Akimbo-like service on top of MythTV by:<br><br> - providing an RSS feed per customer, which lists the shows they have<br>requested
<br> - running MythIPTV on their local MythTV machine<br> - using MythTV as a display interface<br><br>So, why not just give up on "Video blogging" as a term, and just call it<br>yet another form of IPTV? If "real" IPTV services like Akimbo would like
<br>to publish an API that MythIPTV can use, I would happily implement their<br>services as well.<br><br>Mikal</blockquote><div><br>IPTV is a standard that is already defined and in use all over the world. There is no special API that is required. MythTV SVN already has an IPTV tuner implemented.
<br><br>Your "Video Blogging" is completely different from IPTV. IPTV is for real time "brodcasting" of TV (live or prerecorded) over an IP network. Your Video Blogging is a script for automatically downloading prerecorded video files. That is not the same thing at all.
<br><br>Don't get me wrong I do like your program idea. Just the name you used is already taken.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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