Mythbuntu + Miro

I’m wondering if a Mythbuntu box can wirelessly sync with one’s Miro libraries on a PC so that video and audio can be streamed from the PC to the TV, like a digital media receiver.

Furthermore, if MythTV is as great as this guy says, then I would like to be able to, through MythTV on TV with a remote, look through the Miro Guide and subscribe to appealing video feeds.

I understand that MythTV can do alot more than what Front Row on Apple TV can, but it seems like MythTV’s current concern and target is the cable/satellite-ripping (e.g., Tivo) folks, not those who are looking for a way to play their video RSS subscriptions (be it client-server or p2p/BIttorrent) on their TV.

Me, I’m trying to find other options besides cable/satellite TV, which is mostly on repeat for me since I tend to dwell in the 300s (movies and specialty stuff).

7 thoughts on “Mythbuntu + Miro

  1. What needs to be made is some kind of interface between all of the networking sites, to make it some kind of truly networked entity. One could enter the name of the person they’re trying to find and it’ll pull up entries from known social networking databases. Though that would really only work with Facebook and any other place that right up front asks for your first and last names. Myspace finally caught onto that late in the game but it’s not a requirement as it is on FB.

  2. I’d suggest a “no preference” option. There are those who will want something badly enough that they will use any means to get it, regardless of legality or consequences, and those who will get their media from anywhere.

    I happen to have no preference as to my sources, so if you add that option to the poll I’d fall under that. Some things you can’t buy anymore in the medium you want and are sometimes forced to search online via freely- and multiply-licensed files; whereas others you can’t find anywhere except in a traditional hard format such as a cd/dvd. As an example, I am an avid fan of music so I often have to look in all available places for the music I crave– whether its an obscure music shop in a city a few hours away or on an internet accessible database.

  3. I don’t see why not.

    I don’t see why MythBuntu would have a problem syncing with the Miro library. You could run Miro on MythBuntu. You would just have to navigate with your remote into the library, and point it at the Miro download directory.

    I will be building a MythBuntu machine to do exactly this in about a month, I am buying half the hardware today in fact. Either way, I will be posting the build on my blog at http://www.walford.ca

  4. Of course.

    I don’t entirely repudiate the concerns or the expressions of concern of the Religious Right (which have both gone for and against the restrictive tone struck by the Republicans from 2001-2006), but I also don’t necessarily fear a slippery slope in the expansion of civil liberties.

    In fact, I welcome the latter phenomenon more, since it enables us to move on to other civil liberties issues which, once they are solved, will become more incorporative of the individual and the individual’s own particular intricacies. Because as soon as you give the right to vote to the non-property owners, it’ll have to be given to non-property-owning females (and their male counterparts), then the non-property-owning female African Americans (and their male, non-African-American counterparts), then the non-property-owning female African American lesbians (and their male, non-African-American, gay counterparts), and so on.

    Also, I don’t think that the Religious Right has a good grasp, let alone a monopoly, on what civil liberties should be granted to whichever group by Constitutional amendment. While the constituency has, more or less, welcomed other ethnic groups, races and color of skin into the hierarchy, it is still grappling with the idea of granting women the ability to assume governing positions in the churches and mosques, and are, by and large, vociferously against welcoming LGBT members into the congregation unless they give up their “lifestyles”, let alone giving them governing positions.

  5. Hi, I did talk to them, but the eventual answer to my pleas to the MSC registar could be paraphrased like this:

    “We understand your issue with the transcript, but until we get the actual transcript from Oglethorpe, we can’t process your HOPE scholarship”.

    At least I found out that I can still go to school on the Pell grant (I was only told this after the period for pre-registration advising), but the lack of HOPE makes things difficult in the area of buying books.

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