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Renaming!

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:53:00 GMT

I'm going to be renaming MythIpTv to MythNetTv to avoid a flame war on the MythTV user's mailing list.

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MythIPTV Beta 2

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:11:00 GMT

Just announced. It was either do the washing, or this:

Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:11:09 -0800
From: Michael Still 
To: Discussion about mythtv 
Subject: MythIPTV Beta 2

Hi again.

There's a new version of MythIPTV now at http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythiptv/source/beta-2/

This version adds the following:

 - subscription management: you can add RSS URLs to watch,
   list them, update them (download new versions of the XML and
   import the shows), and remove them

 - ad hoc video management: add a remote URL to the TODO list,
   download a remote URL and import it now, import a local file

 - transcoding: it's quite probable that you'll encounter a
   video format which isn't know. Please report it if you do

 - statistics: how many programs do I have? how many are waiting
   to download? how much data have I downloaded so far?

 - reporting: what shows would be downloaded next? what does the
   internal log say about the state of MythIPTV?

Once again, this is a beta, so good backups are needed. I would love more feedback.

Oh, and you _really_ need mplayer and mencoder installed now. Really.

Cheers,
Mikal

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MythIpTV Beta 1

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:41:00 GMT

Some folk at LCA expressed interest in my video blog aggregator for MythTV. I've cleaned it up, and just sent out the first release:

Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:38:04 -0800
From: Michael Still 
To: Discussion about mythtv 
Subject: MythIpTv Beta 1

Hi.

I've been recently wanting a video blog aggregator which integrates with
MythTV. Specifically, I wanted the videos to appear as recordings. I've
had a horrible script for that for a few months, but ended up cleaning
it up when it occurred to me that Akimbo (http://www.akimbo.com) is just
a per user RSS feed, and something a lot like MythTV.

So, I wrote MythIpTv. It takes RSS feeds, imports the entries in the
feed and builds a TODO list. It then downloads shows and imports them
into the MythTV recordings menu.

The code has only been tested by me, so if you're interested in giving
it a try, please take good backups. You can find the code here:
http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythiptv/source/beta-1/mythiptv

Before use, you need to make a temporary data directory in your current
working directory:

mkdir data

You use mythiptv like this:

./mythiptv --url <url to RSS feed> <show title>

or

./mythiptv --file <RSS file on local disk> <show title>

I've been using Google Video to test this, as the AVI format they use is
natively supported by the MythTV player. This isn't true for a lot of
RSS feeds and transcoding isn't implemented yet, so if you want
something to test with, you might want to use the same command line as me:

./mythiptv --url
"http://video.google.com/videofeed?type=search&q=engedu&so=1&num=20&output=rss"
"Goole EngEdu"

That command just builds a TODO list. You then need to download some of
the shows. You do that like this:

./mythiptv --download <number of shows to download>

Once downloaded, the shows will appear in the recordings menu.

I would be really interested in people's comments on the code, and
suggestions for improvement. There are a couple of things I know about
already:

 - it really needs transcoding
 - the is no graphical UI yet

Cheers,
Mikal

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