[Discuss] Is MythTV dead?

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (Dan Ritter)]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:27:48PM -0400, Rich Braun wrote:
> In order to have a user-friendly front end, it has to be able to pull online
> content from a variety of sources (Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, plus whatever else
> got invented in the past 15 minutes) and convert it into a unified look and
> feel to match the familar PVR and DVD/BluRay content that most people have. 
> The back-end should be set up to bookmark and archive anything you might want
> later, without making its presence particularly apparent except when it wants
> you to add more storage.  (And I'd actually like to be able to have 2 or more
> back-end machines with complete fail-over capability, perhaps even set up as a
> shared grid between multiple people's homes.)
> 
> Suppose I wanted to go off and write such a thing from the ground up.  What
> would stand in the way of creating a new open-source project to accomplish
> exactly that?

Hulu and Netflix put encryption in your way; Youtube has terms
of service. DVD is solved, but Blu-Ray isn't, really.

-dsr-

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