[mythtv] Paid for Plugin dev?

[Elkin Fricke]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Erich Nachbar <mythtv at nachbar.biz> wrote:

>
>> This has come up before (and it would be a nice feature to have), so I'll
>> just
>> start out by saying that for such a plugin to be accepted into the main
>> myth
>> source, the server side will need to be:
>>  a) open source
>>  b) run on mythtv.org
>>
>
> Did people discuss before how to pay for the required hardware & bandwidth?
> I did some calculations and it is clear that there will be some sort of
> subscription model required (I presume no one wants to see advertisements
> instead).
>
> It would end up being very cheap (a few bucks/year) for each household and
> could be free for people who can't afford it (like students).
>
>
>> Also, please note that this really wouldn't be possible as a 'plugin', it
>> would need much deeper hooks than are readily available with the existing
>> plugin interface.
>>
>
> Thanks for clarifying this. I'm not familiar at all with the MythTV
> internals (yet).
>
>
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I run my backend 24/7... I bet that is fairly common for people to have this
setting. This way it should be possible to use something like p2p /
distributed computing to do the calculations instead/additionally of a
subscription model. Cheers, Elkin
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