$ ./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 This is why I want to queue video, and then have it download to Myth a little at a time.
Beta 3 is out! It includes: 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 Get it from here.
I'm going to be renaming MythIpTv to MythNetTv to avoid a flame war on the MythTV user's mailing list.
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
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
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…
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…
I was at Fry's today with the kids, and while wandering around I came across the Akimbo. It's an interesting device -- a hardware player that downloads content over your Internet connection, and then plays those videos for you when you ask nicely. You can select what you want to download form their website, and they have a (smallish it seems to me) collection of commercial content. They seem to be aiming at being the next iTunes store -- you can get them to host your video blog, and they will make it available to their devices. You can even charge for people to watch your recorded rantings. I see a couple of problems though: The device is expensive ($200 US is recommended retail, you can get them for $99 at the moment) This functionality would be trivial to implement in MythTV for free (in fact, I have been sitting on a python script that does this for MythTV since LCA -- it just needs some cleanup before release) They use DRM Even worse, they use MS Windows DRM I wonder if anyone has asked them if they'd be willing to allow a MythTV client? [btags:]
It's been a while since I've commented on the MythTV book project, so it's worth a quick status update. We're basically into the home straight now -- we've decided what to cover in the book (which of course involves missing out on a few things which could be in there if we had infinite space and time), written the chapters (which are all now done), and are now working through technical review and copy edits. I'll keep you posted as we get closer to final production.
It had to happen. I screwed up the ffmpeg installation in the homework for the tutorial, so the tutorial page now has an errata section which explains the problem. Additionally, if you downloaded the VMWare image before now, you'll need to download a new copy. Sorry for any pain caused.