[mythtv-users] MythNetvision grabbers needing update

[Paul Harrison]

On 13/03/13 14:31, Robert Siebert wrote:
>
> Am 2013-03-13 14:44, schrieb Dan Wilga:
>
>> After trying (and failing) to use MythNetvision some time ago, I decided
>> to try again last night. Here's what I found, after much digging and
>> debugging:
>>
>> - thewb.py works fine.
>> - comedycentral.py fails, due to 404s. I assume the search mechanism and
>> RSS feed locations have moved within the site.
>> - mtv.py fails, but silently. If you view the XML returned by their API,
>> it says the API being used has been deprecated.
>> - pbs.py complains that there are "No Xslt results" for a whole bunch of
>> URLs, even though these URLs do return feeds. Perhaps the script is
>> using the wrong DTD or something.
>> - hulu.py fails, also due to 404s.
>>
>> I have searched trac and master on git, but nobody seems to be working
>> on this plugin. I can't believe nobody has noticed these problems
>> before, though. Did I just miss something, or should I try to fix the
>> scripts myself?
>
> It would be best if you do the changes and create a ticket in trac. 
> For my opinion it would also be best to create a pull request in 
> github so the change can be applied from there.
>
> It looks like the mythtv development is stalling, the devs numbers are 
> shrinking and the remaining ones are very busy. They are purely 
> concentrating on the tv and recording functionality. no plugin has 
> been updated in a while.
>
> And unfortunately the devs don't apply many useful tickets or pull 
> requests from github like xbmc does. Not even a simple two-liner 
> patch. This really reduces the motivation to contribute. Even useful 
> mythmusic changes are not cherry-picked from pauls repository. Sorry 
> for being so naggy, I had to say this.
>
> best regards
>
> Robert S
>
>

I'm glad I'm not the only one to see things have really slowed down. 
According to a dev I spoke to, one of few that is actually still 
speaking to me :),  the 0.27 release will be more of a bug fix release 
with no new major features added but if that was true wouldn't you think 
the first thing to look at would be the 500+ trac tickets?

I'm sad to say that recently I've actually been looking at xbmc as an 
alternative at least for video playback . Even had a play with torc 
today in the hope there has been some progress there, sadly doesn't look 
like there has been much visible progress in the torc-client but I can 
see Mark is still plugging away at it.

Paul H.