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I just found this link that gives an opensource method of doing this...with mythtv. Sounds interesting.

Check out the Project for Open Source Media(POSM) as they are developing a Linux run set-top HTPC box. I've actually got an alpha version in my living room right now. At the moment it is proof of concept using some 5 year old whiteboxes (with new video card and 200GB HD), Azureus, Gnome Nautilus, some shell scripts and a Packard Bell remote control, but it looks and works great.

In addition to all the standard HTPC features, the POSM box uses RSS feeds with bittorrent enclosures like the awesome Pep Del.icio.us feed) to download great looking video automatically. Plus the POSM guys have gone to trouble of fine tuning the outputs (an Nvidia MX4000, ~$30) so they are nearly broadcast quality with proper whites and overscan.

With a high quality MP4 file (like I'm pulling from the DigitalBicycle Project (I'm a developer on the project) you seriously can't tell the difference between that and television.

There is a plugin for MythTv that takes an RSS feed, downloads the show via bittorrent, and Voila!

check it out here: http://www.torrentocracy.com/

All the replies miss the point. He wanted one that integrates with MythTV. Enter torrentocracy.

My new content hosting webservice for Creative Commons licensed content. Upload content, click a button and it not only makes a torrent, but my server starts seeding it. torrentocracy.com/prodigem

http://www.torrentocracy.com/ Done, and done. (almost)

So when will it start showing on torrentocracy ?

I figured you liked Visual Grep. I just wanted to make a little joke, and point Windows users to the real grep. Also, I would like to mod your sig +5 Insightful. It beats me completely how people can re-elect a goverment that does all these things that I'm getting tired of mentioning.

If you haven't yet, you may want to check out UNCOVERED: THE WAR ON IRAQ (torrent of the interviews). People who knew what was going on (CIA employees etc.) give their opinions...and they are not very favorable for Bush.

This post is gonna cost me some karma, but it's worth it to me.

If I were being snippy, I'd say RTFA, but I won't.

The article mentioned Torrentocracy

I can't speak to the quality of them or anything.

And the best place to see this RSS + Divx in action?

http://www.torrentocracy.com/

Political torrents:

http://www.torrentocracy.com/torrents/

torrentocracy has political content that is set up to work with MythTV and a corresponding Blog so you can point their custom BitTorrent client at the RSS feed and automatically have your MythTV box download the content as it becomes available and view when you get around to it. This is really a great example of the RSS & BT Together idea that was discussed here on slashdot a while back. Until I saw Torrentocracy, I really didn't "get it", but now I do. This kind of thing could really change the way we get our newertainment.

torrentocracy has political content that is set up to work with MythTV and a corresponding Blog so you can point their custom BitTorrent client at the RSS feed and automatically have your MythTV box download the content as it becomes available and view when you get around to it. This is really a great example of the RSS & BT Together idea that was discussed here on slashdot a while back. Until I saw Torrentocracy, I really didn't "get it", but now I do. This kind of thing could really change the way we get our newertainment.

Check out Torrentocracy for a way to download bit torrented content from RSS feeds straight to your TV. As far as content, that's the major stumbling block. There needs to be more people willing to license under the Creative Commons. Per that, I'm also currently hosting interviews from Robert Greenwald's last two movies, Outfoxed and Uncovered.

Check out Torrentocracy for a way to download bit torrented content from RSS feeds straight to your TV. As far as content, that's the major stumbling block. There needs to be more people willing to license under the Creative Commons. Per that, I'm also currently hosting interviews from Robert Greenwald's last two movies, Outfoxed and Uncovered.

Mabye something like Torrentocracy to make it relatively "live".

Not sure if you'll ever see this, but the answer is at http://www.torrentocracy.com/blog/archives/2004/06 /installation_go_1.shtml