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Check out MythTV http://www.mythtv.org/ http://www.mythtv.org/ an open source, linux based DVR - this will do all of the low level nonsense for you. I suspect
by keefe 17y ago
Check out MythTV http://www.mythtv.org/ http://www.mythtv.org/ an open source, linux based DVR - this will do all of the low level nonsense for you. I suspect this does what you want - you can record the things you like and play them back. Now, I don't think you will have fancy channels etc so there will be some manual work, but most of the functionality is there. There's a whole community that talks about setting up HTPCs and once you have this open source stuff setup, you can then extend it to do what you like.
- ErrantX 17y agoActually I do use MythTV - and it is from it in part that the idea was born. Doing it manually (as I have been doing a little) is just too time consuming and complicated. As you say it can be done in part by extending and rewriting existing DVR software - but to do it properly you need licenses with content providers etc. to provide on-demand content with which to build your channels. It's a good niche for a startup I reckon (rather than just clone Hulu)
- keefe 17y agoIt's certainly an interesting idea that is related to the sea change in how people interact with media that has been ongoing for the last half a decade or so. As far as getting something for your own purposes, I think building something on top of MythTV is probably fastest - avoids the annoying reinventing the wheel stuff. I have shied (sp?) away from video work because it is inherently computationally and bandwidth expensive - so most of my personal work has focused on text based stuff, which is much cheaper to make scalable (: