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.

Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:

I finally got my network run over to the MythTV box a couple days ago. I ran updates on the PC and added a couple myth plug-ins that I did not get a chance to choose at install.

I know this is weird, but I don't have a TV capture card in this PC. I have digital satellite and like digital cable, the tuner in the cards are not capable of getting all the channels and require a descrambler box. I don't want to mess with an IR blaster and training the family how to use the device.

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 saw something about RSS 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'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.

The other thing is that I loaded a plugin for using game emulators within MythTV, called MythGame. Do I have to load the emulators separately via the apt-get process? Any idea how to import the game ROMs. Someone gave me a couple burned CDs full of game ROMs a few years ago and as soon as I find them, I like to get those classic games running.

Brian Kelsay

I'm pretty new to MythTV, too. For the torrents, I'd probably setup something with rtorrent. It can watch a directory for torrents, and automatically start downloading. It's mainly a console app, and works really well for me. You could also look at Azarus. I remember reading it has a RSS feed torrent autodownloader plugin.