[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] torrentocracy = rss + bit torrent + myth

[Claus M. Christiansen]

Looks very nice, I must say...

Claus

Gary Lerhaupt wrote:

>I have taken Renchi Raju's mythnews plugin, revamped the GUI 
>(borrowing from mythweather, adding a second page), and added 
>enclosure parsing/downloading to enable bit torrent downloads from 
>Myth.  I am calling this project Torrentocracy.
>
>http://torrentocracy.com/files/permalink/torrentocracy-0.0.4.tgz
>
>At this stage, it works.  If an RSS feed has an application/x-
>bittorrent enclosure within it, a "torrent" icon will appear on the 
>entry.  You can then right button to the second page where there you 
>can hit the menu button and then select "Start Torrent".  It will then 
>download the torrent to /var/lib/torrentocracy/active/.  Separately, I 
>have also developed a very simple bittorrent service script (packaged 
>within torrentocracy) to be placed in /etc/init.d/, which starts 
>btlaunchmany.py on bootup and tells it to automatically join any 
>torrent found in /var/lib/torrentocracy/active.  So, basically, from 
>your TV, you can just select start torrent and btlaunchmany.py does 
>the rest.  
>
>This is as far as I have come.  My next steps are to parse the output 
>of btlaunchmany so that I can show updated status in the torrentocracy 
>GUI.  I also want to get the "stop torrent" button working and create 
>other options to move completed content out 
>of /var/lib/torrentocracy/active/ and place it 
>in /var/lib/torrentocracy/complete/.
>
>I very much welcome feedback/patches.  There are many things left to 
>do and improvements to make.  Here's a list:
> - Torrent status 
> - Handling of other RSS enclosure types 
> - Get rid of flicker on page 2
> - Entry scrolling for full entry view on page 2 
> - Date shown on RSS entry should be published time, not downloaded 
>time 
> - If set, automatically download new torrents 
> - When RSS is auto-pulled, don't switch to the newest entry 
> - HTML tag handling in RSS entry text 
>
>Thanks,
>Gary 
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