[mythtv-users] MythTV and BitTorrent?

[Kevin Kuphal]

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
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