[mythtv-users] MythTV and BitTorrent?

David Linville dlinvill at networksdown.com
Mon Jul 21 21:50:26 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:55 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> > > Miro is in knoppmyth (or its predecessor democracy player was in the
>> > > last version anyway, I haven't tried R5.5).
>> > >
>> > > It's not well integrated, just a standalone app started from a menu
>> item.
>> > >
>> > > So why didn't someone start the thread with "why doesn't someone build
>> > > a proper mythplugin for miro" and it would be interesting to see if
>> > > the response was different :-)
>> >
>> >
>> > Miro is nothing more than a nice RSS feed downloader + Gstreamer as a
>> video
>> > player.  All of this is present in Myth as MythNews + the Internal
>> player.
>> > All that's needed is the background downloading piece which I have on my
>> > TODO list at some point.  Integrating miro isn't really needed when you
>> can
>> > put the feeds from miroguide.com into MythNews.
>>
>> The idea wouldn't be to have a miro-like interface in MythTV.
>> The idea would be to treat the channels on Miro as if they
>> were any other broadcast channel and setup recording rules
>> and have recordings available with all of the others.
>
>
> The thing is, Miro isn't TV.  It's "podcasts" which again can be handled by
> MythNews with some modifications.
>
> Kevin
>


Watching pre-downloaded video podcasts is different from reading news
feeds.  I want the shows to be in my Recordings screen where I can watch and
then delete them the same as I do my regular broadcast tv shows.

I'm currently using Mythnettv to accomplish this.

http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv/
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