Comments on: Command-Line Version of Democracy Wanted

By: Ken Kennedy

Ken Kennedy — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:17:39 +0000

I would actually be very interested in this, and would be willing to help. I do most of my hacking in Python these days, so hopefully I’d be of some use…*grin*. I’ll send you an email separately, Tiffiniy.

By: teebee

teebee — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:18:44 +0000

XBMC! that would be kuwl

By: th0m

th0m — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:55:23 +0000

i’d love to help get this going!

By: tomhiggins

tomhiggins — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:32:39 +0000

A good example of why this would be of great use in spreading the meme is Bashpodder, a podcatcher done all in about 40 lines of bash.

It would be great to have a common set of simple cross platform scripts, say like in Bash, that would handle the rss feeds for getting new content, putting them in proper directories and launching a configurable set of players (based on what platform is in use) to show the goodies.

I have not peeked at the rss specs for democracy, maybe now is a good time to do that. If anyone is working along similar lines please post up here, dupilcation of effort cuts into my beer drinking time.

-tomhiggins

By: Tim Child

Tim Child — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:01:35 +0000

Actually I was just thinking about doing this before I clicked on the blog here.

In my house we dont actually have normal television anymore, the satellite box hasnt had its subscription updated despite the fact that we have 3 really good televisions in the house. At the moment I am getting all my content from the internet and I am in the process of creating a server that will hold all the media and also grab it from the internet.

A command line tool will really help as obviously this doesn’t need to do anything except sit there grabbing content that will later on be watched on another device on a plasma or bedroom TV.

I will be checking out the code soon!

By: matt g

matt g — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:28:10 +0000

a myth plug in would be sweet…