[mythtv-users] Amazon Prime on MythTV

[David Schlenk]

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
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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