[mythtv-users] Amazon Prime on MythTV

George Galt george.galt at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 02:06:25 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:23 AM, David Schlenk <mythtv at schdav.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > It does look like they support Linux as a platform.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > http://ostatic.com/blog/amazon-com-includes-linux-users-in-new-movie-streaming-service
>>>> >
>>>> > I may pay the $79 just to show my support. I've been looking for some
>>>> > kind
>>>> > of scraper via xbmc / navi-x / Boxee / Plex but haven't found anything
>>>> > yet.
>>>>
>>>> It's been out for like 48 hours.
>>>>
>>>> Why not write a grabber for MythNetvision?
>>>>
>>>> Robert
>>>
>>> Amazon VOD's been out since at least 2008.
>>>
>>> I'm dumb and don't know how to write code.
>>
>> Amazon Prime's free VOD is a different animal in most respects (ie,
>> there's not a billing trransaction per-viewing), and has been out
>> since like, Monday.
>>
>> Anyhoo, it would be nice to see people at least feign an interest in
>> our plugin which is capable of such a thing (at least here on our
>> lists) before hunting for a totally unrelated grabber on a totally
>> unrelated product.  Just MHO.
>>
>> Robert
>> _______________________________________________
>> mythtv-users mailing list
>> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>>
>
> I scratched my own itch and wrote a grabber for Amazon. So far just
> have tree view working but hopefully I'll get searching implemented in
> the next week or so.
>
> It relies on screen scraping but the ToS didn't seem to prohibit it.
> Anyway, I'll get it cleaned up and ready for public consumption soon.
> Just thought I'd let the thread know!
>
> David
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>

David:

I'm happy to be a guinea pig when you are ready.

George


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list