21 October 11 - 15:24mythnettv now downloads from Vimeo

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"

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02 August 11 - 16:11Changes to Willi theme in current pre 0.25 trunk MythTV

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

• Menu gets a small text line to show the help text of a certain item
• Fix clock size to fit AM/PM time formats
• Add miniplayer for MythMusic, as it has been ported to MythUI
• Change OSD to better show the resolution of the recording
• Rework the waiting popup
• Update the theme to support Season/Episode data
• Add a popup for metadata lookup
• Some changes to make the theme work better on a 16x9 screen
• Change the OSD do show the banner of the current show

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01 March 11 - 19:07Laima theme got some love

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22 February 11 - 19:09Some improvements to mythnettv

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.

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03 February 11 - 21:05blootube-ng rework for future 0.25 release

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.

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03 February 11 - 19:38Version 2.0 of Willi theme

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.

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26 January 11 - 19:20Build your own MythTV 0.25 packages for Ubuntu Maverick

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

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24 January 11 - 00:00New Laima theme... well at least the beginning

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.

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19 August 11 - 21:21exiftool to sort files into directories

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<datetimeoriginal" oldplace

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