Adding Sync support to channel?

[schaumburg01]

Hi developers,
 
I have written a plug-in allowing playback of TV recorded on my MythTV server. This works great.
 
Yesterday I thought I'd try to sync a recording to my iPad, for offline viewing - but when I pressed the "sync" option, I got an error message saying "this item doesn't support sync" (or something similar).
 
Since it's all just streams to the client, I wouldn't imagine that there's any technical reason for this. Is there a way to mark you items as "syncable"? 
 
My working code looks like this:

track_object = EpisodeObject(
                key = Callback(...),
                title = title,
                summary = str(summary) + str(warning),
                originally_available_at = Datetime.ParseDate(originally_available_at),
                duration = int(duration),
                rating_key=int(rating_key),
                thumb = thumb,
                items = [
                        MediaObject(
                                parts = [
                                        PartObject(key=url, duration=int(duration))
                                ],
                                duration = int(duration),
                                container = 'mp2ts',
                                #video_codec = VideoCodec.H264,
                                #audio_channels = 2,
                                optimized_for_streaming = True
                        )
                ]
        )

Is there a simple key (like "can_sync = True"?) that I can add?

 

/Thanks

Thomas

 

PS: I read that some have speculated that the non-syncability of channels is out of consideration to content owners, who may not want offline copies of their online contents. Admirable - but in this case it's legal offline copies (MythTV recordings) to begin with, so that's not an issue

[mikedm139]

You need to set a flag on the @route declaration for any function which returns an ObjectContainer with content which is "sync"-able.

Like here.

[schaumburg01]

You're a star! I'll try that straight after the day job...