MythTV Themes

mythnettv now downloads from Vimeo

2011-10-21T15:24:00+01:00

Evermore content is uploaded to sites like Vimeo and Youtube. I have added the fist steps to downloading this kind of content into MythTV. All you need is a copy of mythnettv from my Git. Make sure you install all the dependencies (py-videodownload, python-tvrage, py-unrar2, transmissionrpc) as described in the README file. Then subscribe to a Vimeo rss like this:

mntv subscribe "http://vimeo.com/jref/videos/rss" "James Randi Educational Foundation" "JREF"

and start downloading the videos.

exiftool to sort files into directories

2011-08-24T09:05:00+01:00

This is a nice commandline that uses the exiftool to sort all pictures in "oldplace" to subdirectories defined by the original time and date that the picture was taken. It is also a nice way of removing duplicates.

exiftool -r -d newplace/%Y/%m/%d/%H-%M-%S.%%e "-filename

Changes to Willi theme in current pre 0.25 trunk MythTV

2011-08-03T19:42:00+01:00

Following changes have been committed to the Willi theme in the current development cycle towards MythTV 0.25:

Laima theme got some love

2011-03-01T09:20:00+01:00

I added the edit features to the OSD and made sure, that the information only gets displayed on the black bars while watching 16x9 a recording on a 16x10 screen. The "watch recordings" screen now shows the date and time of the recording as well as a very faded fanart as background. Still no support for any of the plugins. Get and test it through the theme chooser within MythFrontend 0.25.

Some improvements to mythnettv

2011-02-22T12:31:00+01:00

It seems that the original development of mythnettv has stopped. I have been maintaining a branch of my own, just to scratch some itches I had, as I use it to download such shows as TED-Talks and SLOW TV. The following is a list of changes I have done to the code since release 7 (January 2009) by Michael Still, that might interest you:

the command "mythnettv statistics" is now much shorter. I have commented out most of the "what has been downloaded" part and only left "what will be downloaded".
downloads which are stored in a folder are handled a bit better, but some more work needs to be done. Only single file video files in a folder are currently supported.
no transcoding is done for most modern, linux friendly file formats, as they are well supported by the internal player within MythTV 0.24.
neither commercial detection nor seek table creation are done anymore, as MythTV 0.24 then screws up playback of some web content.
some basic detection of subtitles, audio (mono, stereo etc) and video (widescreen, 720p etc) properties is done while importing. This metadata is inserted into the database to be displayed as if the file had be recorded with valid EPG data.
a new command line "myhtnettv updatemeta filename" allows you to update the database retrospectively with the above data. This also works for "normal" recordings made by MythTV, if your EPG data was not accurate for these values.

blootube-ng rework for future 0.25 release

2011-02-03T21:05:00+01:00

As usual I will try to keep blootube-ng up to date. I added the search popup to the file and replaced quiet a few images with shapes and pushed the version number to 3.0 to reflect these changes.

Version 2.0 of Willi theme

2011-02-03T21:07:00+01:00

I will stop posting compressed, tared versions of my themes as of today. The reason for it is, that I have started to develop for the future version 0.25 of MythTV and will stop developing for 0.24. The themes will all be available at github and are part of the automatic theme updates via new features added to the development branch. With version 0.25 you will be notified if you are using one of my themes if it changes. The Willi theme is the first to get an update, with and added search dialog for most buttonlists. Use Ctrl+S to access it. Willi is now officially version 2.0.

You will be able to get the 0.24 versions through github, too. Just select the branch 0.24-fixes.

Build your own MythTV 0.25 packages for Ubuntu Maverick

2011-01-26T16:25:00+01:00

All you need to do is get yourselft a PPA account and go to the following link:

https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/+archive/0.25/+copy-packages

There copy the most current version to your PPA and select Maverick as destination. Now wait for the build to be finished.

With some luck you will find your binaries in your personal PPA. Mine can be found here:

https://launchpad.net/~managementboy/+archive/ppa/+packages

New Laima theme... well at least the beginning

2011-01-24T00:03:00+01:00

Just some playing around I did while sick last week. Also on github if you want to track the development. Currently the theme only supports the Main Menu, Watch Recordings and OSD. More will follow in the future. The theme requires you to have Microsoft fonts Verdana and Webdings installed to work. Get it here.