I found some time to play with Miro this week. Miro integrates the functionality of a RSS feed reader, a BitTorrent client, and a video player in to one desktop application. Phew! It's a lot stuff in one application, and it shows. Miro is quite large.
The problem for me is that it is all tied to the desktop. My desktop computer is not on all the time, so I would prefer to run the feed reader and BitTorrent client on a server, while the video player naturally belongs on the desktop. Miro is not designed to work this way so it does not fit my requirements. I was hoping Miro would be useful as a short term solution to manage my torrent downloads, but that is not possible.
However, I do like the concept and that is what interests me now. Miro is licensed under the GPL and is written in Python so perhaps there is even some code that I can reuse.
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Browser Bookmarks
As I mention in a previous post, I use browser bookmarks to keep track of anime torrent links. Bookmarks were just not meant to used as a database so it has become a mess. As the number of links has increased over the past 15 months, I've shuffled things around a few times to keep the bookmark menus from getting too long, but I'm running out of ideas.
I'm seriously thinking about trying Miro just to see how it handles the problem. It is available as a Debian package and I can see from the dependencies that it uses an SQLite database. The large number of dependencies also tell me that it is big complex application, so unless it is the best thing since sliced bread, Miro would only be a stop gap while I figure out a homegrown solution.
I'm seriously thinking about trying Miro just to see how it handles the problem. It is available as a Debian package and I can see from the dependencies that it uses an SQLite database. The large number of dependencies also tell me that it is big complex application, so unless it is the best thing since sliced bread, Miro would only be a stop gap while I figure out a homegrown solution.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Life Without Cable TV
It has been 16 months since I ditched cable TV and yet I watch more "TV" now. Why? Because I can get more shows that I really want to watch with bittorrent, than was possible on cable. Once the non-technical masses can use this easily, cable TV is dead. Bittorrent requires some effort from the user so, by itself, it is not a direct replacement for cable. But more friendly front ends like Miro might just change that.
I have not tried Miro because it depends on xine which seems to use much more resources than mplayer. Anyway, I looked at Miro because it uses RSS feeds to find new episodes of a show. I do this manually now and it is very tedious and error prone. I need something like Miro as a simpler, command line only, application that could automate some of the work. So far, I haven't found anything that might to the job, so it looks like I'll have to write my own.
I have not tried Miro because it depends on xine which seems to use much more resources than mplayer. Anyway, I looked at Miro because it uses RSS feeds to find new episodes of a show. I do this manually now and it is very tedious and error prone. I need something like Miro as a simpler, command line only, application that could automate some of the work. So far, I haven't found anything that might to the job, so it looks like I'll have to write my own.
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