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

[Charles Lavin]

This is sweet.  I'm a torrent junky.  I use it to download legally taped
concerts.  Now if we could only get shn support in mythmusic.

I personally use azureus for all my torrent downloads.  If you haven't
checked it out it is at http://azureus.sf.net.  It already includes a
nice swing web interface and can automatically start torrents in a
specific directory.  So here is what I did.  

1.  Installed Torrentocracy
2.  Installed the Swing Web Interface plugin for Azureus
3.  Configured Azureus to automatically start torrents in the
/var/lib/torrentocracy/active directory
4.  Added a link to the Swing web interface in MythWeb

Now I'm able to start my torrents(torrentocracy), download my
torrents(azureus), and control my torrents(swing interface and mythweb)
all from inside the Myth.

Here's a screenshot of the swing web interface in mythbrowser
http://www.charleylavin.com/azureus.png

Here's a picture of the swing web interface in myth browser fullscreen
on my tv
http://www.charleylavin.com/tv.jpg

Azureus also has a RSS Reader plugin.  With this plugin you can read
feeds and start torrent downloads automatically by filter.  A similar
feature in torrentocracy would be great although redundant for those who
use azureus.

I also noticed that you frequent e-tree.  Do they have a news feed for
their torrents or archieve?

Thanks for the great addition to Myth!


On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:04, 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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