TVR

A Sinatra based webapp for watching (like a TV) and managing (like a DVR) your favorite digital content.

Disclaimer

If you intend to use this application to manage illegally downloaded digital media ... you do so at your own risk.

Screenshots

History

This application is an extraction of part of an exising rails application I wrote for myself in my spare time to help me manage the shows I like to watch.

Q. Why not just make an adapter/plugin/whatever for something like XBMC?

A. Because this just seemed easier to me.

Documentation

Check out the current progress.

Assumptions

• this application runs system commands under whatever user permissions you run the app with
  • reading and renaming files
  • launching your media player
• you can clone a git repository
• you know how to bundle (in the sense of bundler)
• you are not using Windows (currently only support for *nix, maybe cygwin .. I haven't tried it)
• you have a video player (VLC, quicktime, etc)
• if you use a remote media player, it supports ssh and has auth keys already copied
• you have a compatible version of ruby installed (I prefer RVM)

Installation

Check out from Github:

$ git clone git@github.com:jmitchtx/tvr.git
$ cd tvr
$ bundle
$ mkdir .shows
$ find /path/to/my/mkvs       > .binaries/local-drive.txt
$ find /Volumes/other/hd/mkvs > .binaries/other-drive.txt
$ ruby tvr.rb

Open in your favorite browser: http://localhost:4567/

How it works

You provide a file directory listing. I just have cron job that does: $ find /path/to/my/mkvs > /path/to/my/tvr/installation/.shows/

that this application will parse and determine:

• of the shows you want to see, which ones match the tv show name

Copyright

Copyright © James Mitchell

This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See the COPYING file for more details.