On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 06:23:05PM +1100, russ...@coker.com.au wrote: > deb http://www.coker.com.au wheezy misc > deb http://www.coker.com.au jessie misc > deb http://www.coker.com.au stretch misc > > The above APT repositories have Python-iview built for Debian, it was built > for wheezy but still works. I probably should update it.
I have a set of shell scripts which make use of python-iview that you might want to adapt for inclusion in the package. they need some minor changes to make them suitably generic (they currently make some assumptions about the index file location, video download location, and ownership etc that aren't appropriate for packaged software) -rwxr-xr-x 1 cas cas 41 Mar 31 2015 iview-extract-filename.sh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 cas cas 586 Jun 18 2016 iview-fetch-index.sh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 cas cas 176 Mar 29 2015 iview-grep.sh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 cas cas 1080 Jun 18 2016 iview-list.sh* iview-extract-filename.sh is a trivial sed wrapper that extracts the filename of a show from the not-quite-right format used in the index so that it can be downloaded with iview-cli. iview-fetch-index.sh fetches the current iview index listing if it either doesn't exist or if the local copy is too old, with an option to force a refresh. iview-grep.sh searches the downloaded index with grep. it calls iview-fetch-index.sh to fetch/refresh the index as requireḋ. iview-list.sh builds on iview-grep.sh by searching for all episodes that match the pattern, and then optionally downloading them using python-iview's iview-cli. They could all be fairly easily merged into a single script, with a small number of command-line options to perform the various tasks - all except iview-extract-filename.sh already use getopts and are really just variations on a theme anyway, and iview-extract-filename.sh is something that would work just as well as a function in that single script. Doing that has been on my TODO list for some time, but i rarely have to resort to iview so it's a low priority for me (i just set mythtv to record everything that sounds even vaguely interesting, and often don't even get around to watching it anyway so end up deleting them when i get close to running out of space) Given what's being done to the ABC lately (i.e. being run down and crappified so that nobody cares too much when it's sold off to Murdoch), i doubt i'll even bother with my myth setup for much longer. Commercial TV isn't worth watching even if you skip or strip out the ads, and what they're turning the ABC into isn't going to be worth watching either. SBS has some good stuff, but that's being screwed over by the LNP too. > > I will also look for a way to let the appropriate people at the ABC > > know that flash is inappropriate for many reasons, particularly the > > security vulnerabilities. > But not using Flash would allow naughty people to use a python program > to download content! :-# Using flash doesn't stop anyone from doing that. python-iview still works and still occasionally gets updated to cope with ABC obstructionism (by nice people on the net, not by the original author JV who has been cease-and-desisted out of his own software). Many linux video players will play flash video files (.flv), without using or requiring flash - including mplayer and derivatives like smplayer. and the video in a flash video file is easily converted to a standard video format, with no loss of quality (i use ffmpeg. handbrake should work too). Of course, the resolution on iview sucks compared even to SD, but it's OK if you missed the first episode or two of a series before telling MythTV to start recording it. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au> _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
