LAN + Networks

Just saw this - looks great!

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18270

With MythTV moving to QT4, which has a wider range of functionality on various devices, plus a whole host of improvements - I think things are definately on the upswing for MythTV.

I've been looking at having the MythTV 'Videos' area have some useful information gatered from the internet - say for movies and such.

So, I've gathered up a couple of scripts, and done some extra work to customize them for my needs:

• a script that goes through all the sub-directories of the /Videos/ directory, and create thumbnails of the videos as needed. These look great and really make for a more visual MythTV experience
• a script that goes through the 'tv' sub-directory, and look up the TV related information, such as plot, running time, etc.
• a script that goes through the 'movies' sub-directory and looks up the movie information from IMDb, the Internet Movie Database. I haven't used this one yet, so we'll see if it works out-of-the-box for my scenario.

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Another pointer I found at this site:

http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2005/10/16/mythtv-button-sounds/

is about how to add sounds to MythTV remote buttons being pushed - kinda handy.

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I came across this blog article

http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2005/10/

about setting the proper dpi (dots per inch) for the MythTV screens. He points to this article:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size

which has a fairly complete outline of how to make this change happen.

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I found a couple of links - this one from April 2003 - "MythAlarm Requirements":

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/24235

Guess a list of requirements was all the person was able to do. Ahh well some good ideas in there anyway.

Also an entry in the mythtv.org trac about adding a clock to any menu: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/13574

Now thats not quite what I was looking to build but an interesting idea anyway.

My first attempt at putting the binClock code in didn't have any effect - not surprising from the quick code mashup I performed.

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