MythTube
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Description
Unofficial Add-on for MythTV to see Internet video channels.
You can syndicate on your favorite RSS feeds Internet channels and watch and download their programs. Too you can search on some video search site (how youtube.com), using external script, now suport:
- youtube.com
- alpacine.com (spanish trailers)
To code your search script, please read this guide: MythTube#Make_MythTube_Script
Software Requirements
Recommend Mplayer and w32codecs to can view unsupported Internal video format.
MythTube SVN version (0.22), currently only exists for QT4/trunk.
External script can need more dependences how Perl library or Python library, check they.
- for youtube search, need perl lib XML::DOM, (perl-XML-DOM package on openSuse 11.0)
Installation
Donwload the last version from [MythTube] track page.
Option 1: If you want build mythtube with all mythplugins
Untar on your SVN mythplugin dir
Ingress on mythplugin dir
cd mythplugin
Patch code with contribution patch to configure and add to menu
patch configure mythtube/contrib/mythtube-configopts.patch.txt patch ../mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/library.xml mythtube/contrib/library.xml.mythtube.patch
Type
./configure qmake make
As root
make install
Option 2: If you want build mythtube and add to your mythtv system
Ingress on mythtube dir
cd mythtube
Type
qmake make
As root
make install
Patch code with contribution patch to add mythtube to menu As root
patch /usr/local/share/mythtv/library.xml contrib/library.xml.mythtube.patch
Note: NOTE: Path to library.xml can be different"
Screen shots
browser channels
a video channel
special search channel
Make MythTube Script
Channel scripts suggestion:
- Veoh Video Network
- Google Video
- Blogdigger
- Revver
- DailyMotion
- Yahoo!
- blip.tv
- Yahoo! Video
Script system is too simply, you need parse the relevant info and output (by standard output) a xml ATOM feed. See below.
Script must implement this options:
-S <query> search
-M <video_page> get media url
-S option: get search result and parse it to get a video list.
Return format example:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<feed>
<entry>
<title>Exploring MythTV and mediaMVP</title>
<date>27-08-2006</date>
<content>MythTV is an open source digital video recording package, similar to TiVo. First is a solid intro to what MythTV can do. After that, I ... all ยป introduce the mediaMVP set top box and how it can be used to expand MythTV to every TV in the house for not to much doough-ray-me.</content>
<link href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwcB88yFeZ0'/>
<media:group>
<media:thumbnail url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/jwcB88yFeZ0/0.jpg'/>
<media:player url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwcB88yFeZ0'/>
<media:time sec='436'/>
<media:content url='media_url(usually no get on search result see below)' />>
</media:group>
<rating viewCount='39169'/>
</entry>
................(add one entry per video)................
</feed>
Note: NOTE: Note: all tag not are necessary. For example, if you don't get media:content from video site don't put this tag."
-M option: usually search result web page no provide the media url, only get video web link. This option must return the media url of a <video_page>, this is because get media url for all listed video is very slow.
Return format: <video_page> <enclosure_media_url>
Example:
./youtube.pl -M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijvq_LuNo1s
(OUTPUT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijvq_LuNo1s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijvq_LuNo1s http://www.youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=ijvq_LuNo1s&t=OEgsToPDskJss4tI40ittVCJDd9Tljx7&use_get_video_info=1&fmt=18
