[mythtv-users] Record a payed http stream

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/11/2013 05:50 AM, mythtvuser wrote:
> From: Michael T. Dean
>
>> On 02/10/2013 07:21 AM, Quint wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Got a question since this year F1 is going to be payed view in the
>>> netherlands. Sport1 has all the rights of it and is going to broadcast
>>> it on there payed tv stations. My provider hasn't got sport1 in there
>>> package so i have the only possibility to look at in on the web
>>> (sport1 go). I am a big fan of f1 but not so a big fan that i will
>>> stop sleeping to see the races that are not driven in europe..;) So i
>>> was wondering how is it possible/are there any addons that can record
>>> payed http streams in mythtv?
>>
>> We don't really have a mechanism to do this in MythTV,
>> and--generally--doing so is a violation of the terms of service of the
>> site that's streaming the broadcast. For something as long as the F1,
>> that's not ideal--but it seems that the providers of that stream don't
>> want to make things easy for their customers.
>>
>> The closest thing we have is Mythnetvision, which will allow download of
>> some video, where terms of service allow. However, this won't really
>> help with the F1--especially since Mythnetvision doesn't currently have
>> the infrastructure to allow support for for-pay video via HTTP. :(
>
> Ok thanks for the info, then i need to watch it real time.. But to be clear i am going to pay for the stream was only intrested if it was to be brought into mythtv.. Going to see if i can something with scripting then..;)
>

Right.  It didn't sound like you were trying to steal anything, but I 
was just trying to explain why we are unable to support such a 
feature--because the providers don't want to allow it.  They want to 
control you and how you consume the content they provide.  It's 
unfortunate--and, really, rather annoying that they believe they can 
force you to watch something like the F1 without a recording--but the 
industry doesn't seem to care about their customers, at all, anymore.  :(

Mike