[mythtv-users] MythTV and BitTorrent?

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM, David Linville <dlinvill at networksdown.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  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
>>
>
>
> Watching pre-downloaded video podcasts is different from reading news
> feeds.  I want the shows to be in my Recordings screen where I can watch and
> then delete them the same as I do my regular broadcast tv shows.
>

I agree and once the content is parsed (newsfeed) and downloaded, then
importing it into "Watch Recordings" is trivial.

Kevin
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