[mythtv-users] MythPodder ... ?

Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz
Wed Oct 19 01:49:36 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 21:26 -0700, Anthony Floyd wrote:
> So, after reading through the various video iPod threads, and thinking
> about some of the wishing that had gone on in the past about podcasts,
> what if some effort was put into a "MythPodder" module?  This module
> could (bear with me here, I'm blue-skying):
> 
> 1) Download podcasts from RSS feeds
> 1a) OK, it'd be nice to take some of the podcast directories (OPML
> anyone?) and display them for subscription as well as manually add
> podcasts
> 1b) And, we'd want to set up a download schedule, retention limit, etc
> (ala iPodder ?)
> 
> 2) Organize said podcasts into a "Manage Recordings" type screen where
> you have a list of podcasts you've subscribed to and a sub-list of
> "episodes" of the podcast
> 
> 3) Allow you to play these podcasts ala "Manage Recordings"
> 
> but also ...
> 
> 4) Allow you to select recordings/videos to be "published" via a (or
> several) RSS feeds from MythWeb
> 4a) After selecting the recording/video, it gets queued in the
> transcode daemon's list, with appropriate settings to transcode it to
> the video iPod format (which as far as I can tell, is limited to
> 480x480 mpeg-4 , 30 fps, using the available software ... I don't
> think we can encode to H.264 with the available libraries such as
> ffmpeg)
> 4b) After the transcode daemon is finished with it, through some
> clever php scripting in the MythWeb interface it'd appear as an RSS
> feed
> 
> 5) Allow you to select music and podcasts to be presented as an RSS feed too...

How much of this does mythstream already do?
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html


> 
> 
> In this way you could subscribe your iPods (or PDAs, desktops,
> laptops, etc) to the MythWeb RSS feed, and view shows, recordings,
> music, and podcasts.
> 
> Wouldn't that be great?
> 
> Comments/thoughts?
> 
> Anthony.
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