IPTV trickle download

[idkpmiller]

Hi Guys,

I am looking at the possibilities of a trickle download plugin that can download torrents, google videos, yahoo videos and other IPTV feeds in slow time i.e. NOT streaming for play back at a later time, I was thinking of supporting the world wide services as opposed to country specific i.e. not Amazon unbox - USA only nor ITV - UK only.
It would need to support RSS feed reception.

first off is someone already working on this so I am wasting my time or has it even been done and I am just a mushroom?

If I dont hear anything then I will presume I am wasting my time, so if its done tell me, if you would like it tell me!

Cheers

[stu8080]

Sounds like a brilliant idea, i reguarly get US tv shows (Lost, House, 24 etc) from Bittorent, and would love an interface that allows RSS feed integration and a progress meter.

Not sure about how Google video or others would work, but uTorrent has a very good WebUI that could be used?

[idkpmiller]

Sounds like a brilliant idea, i reguarly get US tv shows (Lost, House, 24 etc) from Bittorent, and would love an interface that allows RSS feed integration and a progress meter.

Not sure about how Google video or others would work, but uTorrent has a very good WebUI that could be used?

I was thinking more around using RSS Feeds to subscribe to differnt services(channels) these can be Google Video, Yahoo Video, YouTube, EZTV, VTV and of course bittorrents, that way you subscribe to a TV show from a "Provider" and when the next episode or show is available it will be automatically downloaded for you.

If you take a look at Democracy Player that may put you on the same page as I am thinking.

Cheers

[stu8080]

I start to see what you mean...

I love Youtube for the fact that there are thousands of interesting clips, but its downfall is that there is so much that you have to spend a long time trawling through finding interesting content!

Looking at Democracy player now i feel just as overwhelmed. At least with EZTV etc i get a dozen top US dramas each week (barring the frustrating breaks!!)

If there were a good way of metatagging videos consistently then this would be brilliant (ie i like documentaries, so any videos that showed history, war, tech, vehicles etc got flagged) But at the moment the channels are very varied and so what i get is very random. Know what i mean?

Have you checked out Ubustream? I havent for the above reasons, but it sounds like it covers the same bases?

[shfaxx]

About a year ago I asked about this, but no one had any solutions... I finally came up with the following solition...

I use Miro (Used to be Democracy) to D/L the RSS feeds to a folder which I have in my GBPVR recordings folder. GBPVR can then see the vids and I can watch them on my TV. The only time I use the Miro interface is to setup new recordings, I don't have Miro associated to any of the video files. Lastly, for some files that come down as .mp4 / m4u, etc, I have a script that runs every hour and renames them to .avi. I was never able to figure out how I could associate GBPVR with the other extensions. It all works flawlessly though. I've watched ever diggnation via GBpvr, as well as System, Tekzilla, Tiki-Bar TV, etc... Ohh and Miro doesn't care if you delete the files via GB-PVR....


enjoy.

[idkpmiller]

I have played with Miro AKA democracy in the past and although I occasionally use it on my desktop, I would think its too much of a memory hog to run it 24x7.

I would be interested to be proven wrong. sp if you could provide additional details of how you are setup and your experience I would be happy to play once more with Miro.

Cheers

[shfaxx]

- I run an Athlon XP 2200+ (1.81Ghz) with 512 ram running XP / SP2.
- The only thing this box does is run GB-PVR / Miro (1.2.2).
- I have about 100MB of ram available in taskmgr.
- I have a total of 28/29 system proceses running.
- @ 9:00pm & the processes running all day:
- PVRX2 is taking up the largest chunk of memory @ 151MB
- Miro is next up with 77MB used
- After a reboot the processes are using:
- PVRX2 is using 43MB
- Miro is using 92MB
- My CPU hovers from 7% to 20% on average with spikes up to 50%-90% here and there.
- I run an AT job at 5:00am to reboot the box once a day to clean up any wild processes. I dunno if I still need this, but in one of the old released of GB-PVR had an issue if I left it run for more than a few days.
- I also runn Atomic Clock to synch my time to ensure my clock doesn't get wonky and start recording shows at the wrog time.

[idkpmiller]

I have reinstalled miro and it does seem to be a lot better than it was in older releases.

I am thinking of knocking together a simple app that will integrate my code snippets I have for a web client, regex, xml and add on a commandline bittorrent app or perhaps use the opensource bittorrent library to roll my own, making it small and unobtrusive is my main objectives.

[Dave72]

Old thread, I know.. but its still OT

So shfaxx mentioned Miro.. nice catch !

Worth checking out as another source of media for some of you folks..

This thing can monitor and auto-download (or just manual mode) all sorts of video programming.. mostly 'Vodcasts' (the video version of Podcasts).. stuff can come from big name sources like PBS etc, or things like Youtube etc. The videos get stored into subfolders on your destination drive. If you sub to a bunch of sites, it will autograb new episodes as they come out. CHeck out the Miro website .. it doesnt do it full justice, but gives ya the idea.

So, heres the thing with GB-PVR.. I use a MVP.. so w/o getting into transcoding as I watch, its really preferable to convert the mov/mp4/flv/avi videos over to mpeg. Then the MVP can play em natively (plus, you can actually pause or rewind with the remote).

Using Autohotkey scripting/programming language, I made a util to autoscan all subfolders from its installed folder, and convert any of a list of file extensions (configurable in the ini file) over to mpeg using ffmpeg, and then deletes the original file (so you have a gbpvr menu of only mpegs). In the ini, you can also set the option string to ffmpeg.. I just use -sameq (to make same "quality" as original file). There might be better option strings to use, Ill look into it.. but so far everything seems to play.

Remember, only install the files into the root folder of the Miro download folder. You subsciption folders should all be in the same folder (ie, below) as mpegmaker4miro.exe.
It will scan its own folder and all subs for any file ext's set into the ini.. covert them, and then delete the original. No 2nd chance.. lol. I wanted to make this as one-click'able as possible. You could even put it in the windows sched I guess (I might make an internal run-time thingy).

The zip file includes ffmpeg.exe, mpegmaker4miro.exe (a compiled autohotkey script), and mpegmaker4miro.ini

In keeping with the Opensource rules wrt ffmpeg.. I can certainly give the code to mpegmaker4miro to anyone that asks.. its nothing complicated.

Hope this can help someone out, no point just keeping it to myself.

Maybe IP Trickle is a good name for this kind of tv watching..


Uh... problem.. limit of 1.4 Meg file attachment. This is 3.4 megs as a zip.

Sub ?