[mythtv-users] FaceBook Status Updates in MythTV

[Brad DerManouelian]

A couple of weeks ago (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/358965#358965 
) I mentioned interest in getting my Facebook friends status to  
display while watching programs.

I finally sat down today and wrote a perl script, but need some help  
with the last little bit. So far it:
1. Logs into Facebook
2. Scrapes the friends update page to get the RSS Feed URL
3. Grabs the Friends Status Update RSS
4. Determines if the update happened after the last time the script  
was run and if so, adds it to the update
5. Makes a system call to mythtvosd to display the update text
6. Writes the script run time to a text file to use the next time.

My problem is with step 5.

1. mythtvosd fades away before the text is done. It starts to display  
and then fades after a few seconds.
2. I need to find a way to escape the characters in the text being  
sent to mythtvosd so the shell doesn't freak out (Is just replacing  
the double quotes enough?).

If anyone's interested in the script the way it stands, let me know  
off-list and I'll send you a copy but I prefer someone to help finish  
up the last bits so I can share it with everyone.

Thanks,

-Brad