ted: episode downloader for bittorrent

The totally neat-o solution however, is Miro. You would first go to tvrss.net (where tvshows gets its torrent adresses) and get an RSS feed for the show in question. Miro can then subscribe to the show (it supports video podcasts in nearly any format, including transmission through torrents) and presto...a one-stop solution right down to the player. Check it out!

After trying Ted, and thinking WOW! I tried TVshow.app. TVshow.app >>>>>>> Ted. Both are amazing though. (just for reference, on a late 2007 imac, Ted took 15% of my processors, and tvshow took 1%)

TED is great, but still a Java App which slows down your system.

I recently wrote an article about how to use some OS X command line tools to fetch television shows without a fancy, but slow GUI.

http://lipflip.org/blog/lipflip/2008/04/subscribe-to-tv-shows

Java?
PFFFT NO WAY

Another vote for TVShows here. ted hogs resource and doesn't always work for me. TVShows has never had a problem, and I don't even notice it. Great app, looking forward to the update.

I've seriously curtailed my already minimal TV show downloading after receiving one of those automated letters from Comcast. I've since set up Peer Guardian 2, which is supposed to help. Anyone know how much it actually helps?

FYI - I got sent a DMCA letter from Comcast before Christmas 07 because I was downloading an episode of The Office through bittorrent. Be aware that you might get a warning email fired off into your inbox. They didn't get me for the downloading, it was the uploading and "distribution of copyrighted material" that got me in trouble. I blogged about it - complete with pdf of the email. See the link below...

http://tinyurl.com/6d4vue

Happy downloading!

"Unfortunately, ted is a cross-platform java application"

By what warped standard do you consider being cross-platform a disadvantage? I am guessing it is because you are a simple-minded mac user who thinks your platform is the only one that matters. I am also assuming you prefer a native app with the slight advantage of consistent ui behavior over an app like ted that is open source software. Perhaps since the code is available you could take on the task of porting java code to Objective C to improve the ui. Again, these are just assumptions ... I would like clarification on why cross-platform is unfortunate.

The fact that Java is such a resource hog and that even when idle Ted is taking up considerably more resources than an RSS reader with a parser should is reason enough not to use it.

TVShows.app does a top notch job of working great but not using any noticeable system resources. It doesn't have some of the flashy features of Ted, but with this kind of app having a show synopsis and a little image rally isnt needed as most people are going to auto-download the shows they already like, not the ones they are unaware of.

The use of the term System Tray in Ted to mean Menu Bar gets me. Could they not have changed at least that aspect.


PS: Sourceforge has plenty of mirrors if you bother reading their DL page.

TV shows seems better, it keeps track of new episodes and downloads them automatically, wheras ted you have to manually check for the next episode as far as i can tell.