[mythtv-users] Using MythTV and PPV

[Eric Sharkey]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Mitch Cummins
<mitch at paradise-computers.com> wrote:
> The hotel is an upscale hotel on an island outside of the US. We're looking
> at hosting the PPV content locally. We've done some small MythTV projects
> for homes and I thought that it might be a good base for this system. The
> ~$200 cost for the front end would be OK especially considering it could
> provide other functionality as well.
>
> Thanks for the responses and if anyone else has input, I'd appreciate it!

It really depends a lot on how you want this to work.

If you want to have a list of prices for different content and have
users give their credit card numbers to unlock individual videos and
make it all automatic, this would be a lot of work.

If on the other hand you just make everything available all the time
and just have a script that scrapes the backend log for what was
watched and you calculate some addition room charge at the time they
check out, that would be relatively easy, but there's no way to handle
disputes or distinguish between accidently viewing a recording by
sitting on the remote and intentionally watching a program.

Also please remember list policy:

Because it destroys the flow of the messages on the list.
> But why is that?
> > Top posting is not allowed on mythtv-users.

Eric