On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov wrote:
What I do want to do is start getting torrents of TV episodes to the box. Is there anything in MythTV to download torrents?
I don't know about haveing myth deal with the torrents but you might try some other mechanism for getting media files into your /storage/video directory. I think the myth database is very concerned with the files that it puts in /storage/liveTV and /storage/recodings but the contents /storage/video directory can just be played from the menu options <Media Libray> <Watch Videos>. I think this will allow you to store random clips or shows that myth will try to figure out how to display. There is just a bit of interaction with the database from this directory, specifically if you rip a DVD this is where it gets placed and myth can go out to the web and try for find the movie poster jpg associated with the DVD.
feeds, but haven't a clue about getting that going. I think I loaded a myth plugin for a feed reader. How do I find the feeds or what is the best way to go about finding episodes of a couple shows like Heroes, Mentalist, Dexter, Robot Chicken, etc. including past seasons and getting them into the MythTV database/interface?
I think you are better of not getting them into the database. The database seems very concerned with TV channels, schedules of shows, and info on show that it has recorded, most of this info comes from Schedule Direct. Your torrents won't have this, but they should have a meaningful filename.
I'm not sure that a torrent program loaded, so I'll have to verify that or get one. I've downloaded torrents before, but the key is to get them into MythTV to make it easier for everyone else.
/storage/videos
Another heads up, there seems to be two plug-ins referred to as MythWeb one is more or less a browser the other is a great interface for controlling the server machine remotely. I hope to get the some of the security issues worked out with the latter. From the little that I've seen, it looks great. The former I'm not interested in.