<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:08:35PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:<br>> The thing is, Miro isn't TV. It's "podcasts" which again can be handled by<br>
> MythNews with some modifications.<br><br>Miro may be a bad example for this, but I'll swing for the fences<br>anyway...<br><br>Let's suppose that I have a whole bunch of rules set up to catch and<br>record programs by actors whose work I admire.<br>
<br>Let's further suppose that some of these actors are political<br>activists... Rob Lowe, for example.<br><br>I'm sure you can understand why I would like, as a MythTV user and Miro<br>watcher, to have my MythTV box be able *automatically* to catch any<br>
Miro program that might have, say, an appearance by Lowe on behalf of<br>some (Democratic :-) candidate, and automatically record it.</blockquote>
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<div>Again, I think Miro is hampering the argument because Miro is a collection of RSS feeds and not items broadcast at a specific time that need to be "recorded". Now, what you are proposing, however, has value in that you are seeking something that care parse a wide range of RSS feeds looking for keywords such as "Rob Lowe" and then downloading the resulting content form those feeds.</div>
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<div>I would venture that you can do a close proximity of this with existing tools as well. Sites like Yahoo Pipes offer services that can merge multiple RSS feeds into a single feed that can also then be searched and filtered. There are other services that present search results as RSS feeds. Needless to say, once you settle on a tool that will scour the net and present you a feed of results, the previous tools I mentioned (possibly including MythNews) can consume that and get your content.</div>
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<div>Until true "Internet broadcast" content which appears on a schedule and only on a schedule shows up, I will continue to struggle to see any value in direct integration with Myth short of dropping the resulting content into Myth accessible folders for it to be viewed. </div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div></div>