leetv 1.12 released

[Jim Lee]

Hello, python-list members!


This is my first post.  I have created 'leetv', a Python application.  
You can find it at:


https://github.com/oregonjim/leetv


There are several 'firsts' here (besides my first post...).  This is my 
first time using Github.  This is my first major Python effort, though I 
have been a C/C++/Asm/Embedded developer for several decades.  As a 
result, I'm sure the code is more C-onic than Pythonic at this point.  
This is a project that I've wanted to do for a long time, as well as 
learn Python, so I combined the two.


Here is a short excerpt from the README:

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Do you have a large collection of TV shows stored on a hard drive 
somewhere? Have you spent weeks (or months) ripping all your TV and 
movie DVDs to media files? Have you ever wanted a program that could 
take your entire collection and just play it according to a daily 
schedule, all day long, every day (like a real TV station does), without 
requiring you to do anything beyond the initial schedule programming? Do 
you wish you could choose your OWN commercials to play between shows 
(perhaps some memorable favorites from your childhood, or maybe a few of 
those SuperBowl halftime legends) rather than watch the drivel that 
plagues today's television? Want to get rid of Cable because you 
realized that you're paying for 1000 channels worth of stuff that 
doesn't interest you?

That's what LeeTV is for. It's a set-it-and-forget-it application that 
turns an unused computer into an always on, always playing personal TV 
station - one that plays the content YOU want.

My own setup has been running continuously for months now. It requires 
nothing of me. I will occasionally ssh into my LeeTV box to change a 
schedule, or to add a few more commercials that I found on YouTube, but 
that's it. I don't even have to stop or restart anything. It works so 
well that I added a wireless HDMI transmitter so that the signal is 
available on any TV in the house!

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Thanks for reading,

--Jim Lee