<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Nick Rout <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Kevin Kuphal <<a href="mailto:kkuphal@gmail.com">kkuphal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Will <<a href="mailto:will@st0rage.org">will@st0rage.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> My understanding of reality was that playing (and ripping) encrypted<br>>> DVDs in linux with things such as libdvdcss is illegal in the US,<br>>> whereas bittorrent use is not.<br>>><br>
>> A 'Rip DVD' option might make people see MythTV in a more negative light<br>>> than a built-in bittorrent downloading client.<br>>><br>>> It looks like bittorrent is becoming popular for people to distribute<br>
>> their own works to interested parties. Like the BBC for instance.<br>>> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/20/bbc-will-use-bittorr.html" target="_blank">http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/20/bbc-will-use-bittorr.html</a><br>
>><br>>> No one will stop you, they will just ignore you and your contributions<br>>> will not be allowed into the final project. Oh, and no talking about<br>>> it! :)<br>>><br>>> That seems messed up, to me.<br>
><br>><br>> The part that is somewhat ironic in this whole mess is that you may look at<br>> a product like Miro or legaltorrents and long for integration. Miro is<br>> simply an RSS reader with Gstreamer for video playback. Legaltorrents is<br>
> just an index. Spend a few moments and you'll find a very simply<br>> command-line RSS enclosure downloader for Linux and a bittorrent client that<br>> you can subscribe to feeds with. Both will download content for you and put<br>
> it in a folder that you can browse with MythVideo and, with the right player<br>> depending on the format, play on MythTV. What's missing? Metadata mostly,<br>> but that could probably be scripted pretty easily to pull from the RSS entry<br>
> or the torrent and inserted into the database. All the pieces are in front<br>> of you, just take a little of that open source spirit, put those pieces<br>> together, and distribute it far and wide for the world to enjoy.<br>
><br><br></div></div>Miro is in knoppmyth (or its predecessor democracy player was in the<br>last version anyway, I haven't tried R5.5).<br><br>It's not well integrated, just a standalone app started from a menu item.<br>
<br>So why didn't someone start the thread with "why doesn't someone build<br>a proper mythplugin for miro" and it would be interesting to see if<br>the response was different :-)</blockquote>
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<div>Miro is nothing more than a nice RSS feed downloader + Gstreamer as a video player. All of this is present in Myth as MythNews + the Internal player. All that's needed is the background downloading piece which I have on my TODO list at some point. Integrating miro isn't really needed when you can put the feeds from <a href="http://miroguide.com">miroguide.com</a> into MythNews.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div></div>