• There is now a users mailing list at http://lists.stillhq.com/listinfo.cgi/mythnettv-stillhq.com
• Moved to a public SVN server at http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv/svn/
• Added the 'justone' syntax to the download command
• Another try at using gflags. This means that all the command lines have changed slightly.
• Moved the core of MythTV out of the user interface file.
• Started writing unit tests
• Changed user output code so that it doesn't insist on writing to stdout. You can now write to other file descriptors, which makes things like unit tests much easier to write.
• Added video/msvideo to the enclosure whitelist
• Added HTTP download progress information
• Added a flag which turns off the prompts for markread (--noprompt)
• Patches from Thomas Mashos
  • Search ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt, /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt and /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt in that order for MySQL connection information
  • A manpage
  • setup.py
• video.py now has a simple command line interface to let you query it
• Fix update of inactive programs bug per http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5580005&postcount=4
• Better DB error handling
• Included a COPYING file with the right version of the GPL (it was missing before)
• Fixed a bug where programs would be downloaded more than once (found with a unit test!)
• Started raising exceptions instead of just sys.exit(1). This should make life easier for user interfaces in the future
• Default to using storage groups for storing recordings before falling back to the RecordFilePrefix. This makes the behaviour: use a storage group named "MythNetTV" if it exists; use the default storage group if it exists; use the value of RecordFilePrefix.
• Transcode avc1 videos, because some need it
• Force ASCII encoding of title, subtitle, and all fields in the database to get around feeds which use unicode which python / MySQL can't store correctly
• If there is only one attachment to an item, and its not in our whitelist of video formats, then warn the user that you're assuming its a video file and then add it to the todo list
• Slight tweak to the signature of video.MythNetTvVideo.Transcode()
• Fix buf in RepairMissingDates which caused it to consistently crash
• Fix typo in date warning code
• Better handling of videos where the length of the video cannot be determined by mplayer

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svn co http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv/svn

  mythnettv update

  mythnettv --update

  --datadirdefault:  The default location of the data directory
    (default: 'data')

  --db_host:  The name of the host the MySQL database is on,
              don't define if you want to parse
              ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt instead
    (default: '')
  --db_name:  The name of the database which MythNetTV uses,
              don't define if you want to parse 
              ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt instead
    (default: '')
  --db_password:  The password for the database user, don't
              define if you want to parse 
              ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt instead
    (default: '')
  --db_user:  The name of the user to connect to the database
              with, don't define if you want to parse 
              ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt instead
    (default: '')

  --[no]commflag:  Run the mythcommflag command on new videos
    (default: 'true')

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• Removed gflags because people found it hard to find
• Bug fix patch from David Linville applied
  • Fixed broken imports caused by refactoring
  • Transcode not needed for avc1 and m4v
• Another bug fix patch from David Linville applied
  • Store filesize in the db
• Removed some namespace imports I am not a fan of
• Made verbosity optional for --update
• Small code cleanups
• Let the user know of repeated attempts to download a program
• Documented the need for bittornado for bittorrent to work
• Abandon downloading after 3 failed attempts (you can configure the number)
• Detect stuck bittorrent downloads

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• Started work on an RSS exporter for MythTV recordings
• DX50 doesn't need transcode
• Tweaked supported video mime types so "Tikibar TV" and "Ask a ninja" work
• First cut of Bittorrent support
• Schema upgrades
• Archive recordings as well as importing them
• Improved --list output
• Subtitle restrictions on download as well
• Make subscriptions inactive instead of deleting them (for unsubscribe)
• Better filename safening
• More markread options
• Refactored code to be more sane
• Don't archive things imported from the archive location
• Bulk import (--importmanylocal)

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• Started working harder to ensure video filenames are unique once imported into MythTV, I now prepend video files with epoch seconds at time of import
• DIVX (not divx) doesn't need transcode, added. Check for the existence of the video directory, and return an error if it needs creating.
• Handle storage groups, check for the existence of the data directory
• Updated docs
• Complained about the poor state of SWF support
• WMV support
• FLV support

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• Initial work on transcoding smaller files to something else
• Better error checking for MySQL configuration and accessibility
• Fixed bug where MythNetTV was unhappy if there were no channels configured in the MySQL database
• Found, and hopefully fixed, a bug where program dates were not always being tracked correctly. Also added a check to make sure this doesn't happen again
• Added --markread, which lets you mark old shows as already downloaded

$ ./mythnettv --statistics
Programs tracked: 735
  Google EngEdu: 350
  Scoble Show: 85
  linux.conf.au 2007: 74
  Mobuzz TV: 82
  dl.tv: 32
  Net Cafe: 2
  Foo: 1
  ABC News: 2
  Australia: 1
  Play School: 1
  Diggnation: 72

Programs still to download: 50
  Google EngEdu: 49
  Diggnation: 1

Data transferred: 103 gb (111017264341 bytes)

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To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
Subject: MythNetTV beta 4

Hi again.

MythNetTv is my video downloader / aggregator / importer thingie for MythTV.

I've spent a little longer testing this beta, and I think it's getting
kinda ready for a real release number or something. New things in this
version (from the change log):

  - Made --update more terse
  - Made --update more liberal about what it considers to be a video,
    specifically added video/quick time and text/html (to work around the
    rather broken http://www.mobuzztv.com/uk/rss/quicktime
  - Added a filter option to --download to constrain it to only
    downloading shows with a specific title
  - Added transcoding for mov and wmv2 files
  - If there is a straggling import, and it causes as error, just skip
    it and mark it as imported
  - Don't reset transferred data statistic when we start downloading a
    show again
  - Started implementing moniker support for downloads
  - Unsupported monikers will result in an attempt to download the URL
    using mplayer (which works for RTSP and MMS at the least)

Yes, that's right. You can now download only shows with a specific
title, and you can also download any protocol which mplayer supports --
specifically, RTSP and MMS are now supported.

Now, if only there was a non-sucky way to work out what streams
abc.net.au were offering at any given time...

Get it here if you care: http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv/

Mikal

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$ ./mythnettv --statistics
Programs tracked: 385
  Google EngEdu: 279
  Scoble Show: 26
  linux.conf.au 2007: 74

Programs still to download: 283
  Google EngEdu: 202
  Scoble Show: 8
  linux.conf.au 2007: 73

Data transferred: 22 gb

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• Renamed to mythnettv
• todoremote bug fixed (bad column name)
• statistics bug fixed (no transfer stats caused crash)
• It is now possible to do a --todoremote, --importremote, or --importlocal and provide all the needed information on the command line

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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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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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