[mythtv] MythTV: Windows frontend

[Alan Snyder]

The short answer(s):

In my opinion, simply being able to play recorded
programs
from a windows machine (selected via mythweb or
otherwise),
by accessing the files on a mounted drive, would be
enough
for some users.  If you have a PVR-250, the mpeg2
files
should play (just associate .nuv with the player of
your
choice).  If not, myth's .nuv files won't play. 
There's
been no mention on the list for some time now of a
DirectShow filter to play myth .nuv files natively.

An option that might be easily coded is to look at
Chris
Petersen's nuvexport, which will convert any Myth file
to vcd mpeg, svcd mpeg, divx, or just move it to a new
location and delete it from the database.  A similar
script run in a cron job could convert all new
recordings
to a standard format like divx.  Options might be to
just leave the converted file in a chosen place,
delete
the original and register the file with MythVideo,
etc.
With a little more coding, perhaps this kind of
capability
would be an alternative or option to the transcoder. 
Some
of these ideas are contrary to the orginal MythBox
notion.

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-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
On Behalf Of Alex
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:29 PM
To: mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv] MythTV: Windows frontend

Hi, I was looking around for a way to get a windows
machine to be the
frontend for a mythtv backend, but I wasn't able to
find anything. Has
anyone seen anything that could be used for this? Keep
in mind I want all
the features, like live tv and so on, so simple
streaming solutions like
videolan wouldn't cut it.

I've tried compiling mythtv in cygwin and I'm stuck
getting some weird
scope errors involving timeval in audioplayeross.h (I
can fix it by
making a struct timeval definition in the main class,
but then it doesn't
work in audioplayeross.cpp when it tries to get the
timeval for use in
gettimeofday()). Any ideas with this?

At this point, I'm thinking of just writing my own
windows frontend. Is
there a protocol description document somewhere, or do
I have to go
hunting in the source?

I'm looking forward to being able to make a neato high
tech tv system in
my house.. plus this looks like a fun project. Good to
brag to friends
about :P

Thanks!
-alex



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