[mythtv-users] Podcasting Idea

[Ross Campbell]

> > What I was thinking is that you
> > could use myth to record a local fm station broadcast, then skip the
> > commercials before loading it into an ipod. (Maybe Chris Pinkham's
> > code has an audio component?).  One of the stations I listen to has
> > literally, 10 minutes of programing and 5 minutes of commercials for
> > each 15 minute block.

well, MythFM doesn't AFAIK take advantage of any of the MythTV backed
to schedule or record audio, and I don't think "commercial detection"
on an audio stream would be straightforward at all.

... but how many of us find ourselves wishing we could rewind "live
radio" in the car? ;)

> Unless you absolutely insist on having your local station, there are
> a number of stations out there that stream directly in mp3 format, even
> a few that stream in vorbis (which my player handles) and so you may
> find it better just to record those with a stream recorder and then
> sync them into your mp3 player.

check out streamripper - http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/

> And of course there are lots of amateur stations that stream in mp3
> and these don't even have commercials for you to remove.

Plug for MythStream -
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html - stream internet
audio/video in MythTV.

... and my favorite program in this genre (unfortunately not a MythTV
plugin) is:
http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/


-Ross