This is a process I followed to have KnoppMyth automatically download audio and video podcasts (putting each in MythMusic or MythVideo respectively). Having KnoppMyth download Internet content ended up working well as the KM box is on nearly 24x7 with Internet connectivity.

Out of the box KnoppMyth R5F1 already includes built in Podcast clients, such as the mythstream plugin and Democracy but I found both these programs are better for getting podcasts on-demand rather than automatically downloading new content (Democray should be able to be configured to automatically download as well).

This guide uses Podget run by user MythTV to download podcasts. I chose Podget as there is a package for Podget in the Debian unstable repository, configuration is simple, and Podget allows a relative directory to be specified in the configuration per podcast/netcast.

http://podget.sourceforge.net/

Installing Podget on R5F1 from the KnoppMyth console or over SSH.

1. Change to use unstable debian repository
login as root


Change the 1st line from stable to unstable


2. Install podget

podget will install

3. Change to back to using stable debian repository machine.


Change the 1st line from unstable to stable


4. Launch podget to create configuration
login as mythtv (password mythtv)
type



Some pre-configured Podcasts will start downloading. Hit ctrl+c to cancel the download.

Clean up any unwanted downloads that may have started in /home/mythtv/POD/

5. Customize podget settings
Next we will customize podget’s download location, enable logging, disable playlist creation, and limit number of back episodes podget will retrieve.
Podget’s configuration file for user mythtv can be found at /home/mythtv/.podget/podgetrc.



To change download location edit the line



To enable logging remove the # and space on the line


To disable playlist creation clear the value in playlist_namebase


To limit podget to only download X back episode podcasts. Leave the value at 0 to get all back episodes. I set mine to 3 back episodes



6. Add some Podcasts and Videocasts
Next we will add some sample audio and video podcasts feeds. Podget’s feed configuration file for user mythtv can be found at /home/mythtv/.podget/serverlist.


To add the audio Podcast “Linux Reality� add the line

The above line is broken into 3 parts, the feed URL, the relative path to download to, and the Title, which will also be a created as a directory. So in the above example the podcast would be downloaded to /myth/music/LinuxReality (/myth was configured in podgetrc)

To add the video Podcast “Systm� add the line



7. Setup cron to retrieve Podcast regularly
Finally we will setup the cron daemon to run podget regulary and retrieve our podcasts.

Still while logged in as mythtv



Enter the following line



The above line runs the command “/usr/bin/podget –s� at 1:15AM every day. Google “cron� for more specific scheduling options.

this is exactly what i was searching for. thanks.. ill give it a try on F27.

This is awesome. Thanks!

My list:


I'm dumping these into a directory that's shared with my Windows machines, so I can easily plop these onto my phone, and listen at my desk with windows media player.

Lots of podcasts listed at http://www.digg.com/podcasts

I've been using Podget this way for a while now and it works great. Thanks for the how to!

I was wondering if there is a way have a cron job run the "video manager" after downloading podcasts to update the database with the new files?

IMDB updater script should work http://www.4shared.com/file/23145905/54 ... ertar.html

Never tried it myself...

I set my MythVideo view (Gallery) to browse files. That way Video Manager doesn't have to be run to show new files.

Utilities/Setup>Setup>Video Settings>General Settings>2nd screen, Check "<Your View> browse files"

I changed the settings, and that did what I needed. Thanks for the tip!

Cool - Has anyone done this with the vlog/podcasts going into their recordings instead of music or video?

In order for media to show up in recordings it has to have a corresponding entry in the mythconverg, recordings table.

That said, you could probably create a script using the "import recordings" script (forget exact name) to import the recordings into the recordings database after they are downloaded. Also just putting an entry into the database often isn't enough, without a seek table the ffw/rrw functions from the Internal MythTV player are poor. So something to script adding the seek table too is useful.

Also there is a project MythNetTV that may better fit for your needs.

http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv ... release-2/

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