[mythtv] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

[Damon Searle]

I actually got 0.17 to compile in cygwin using the x11 version of Qt (and
some very nasty hacking). Video plays smoothly but skips back a few seconds
repeatedly. I assume it's something to do with the directx code, but I
haven't tried to fix it yet.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
> On Behalf Of Mario L
> Sent: Saturday, 5 March 2005 3:17 AM
> To: Nicholas McCoy; Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
> 
> This sounds about right.  I abandoned trying to port this because
> there were so many bugs in QT and mingw.  I actually had a functioning
> version, but due to link issues with ld in mingw, QT didn't seem to
> build correctly and iterators were broken.  The announcement of the OS
> license got me a bit happy when I read about it on the kde-cygwin
> mailing list.
> 
> As soon as this is released anyone else interested in helping me start
> this port again can send me an email, and we can plan out how to split
> it up.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:23:56 -0500, Nicholas McCoy <mccoyn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My understanding is that when the OS license for QT Windows comes out,
> > we can compile MythTV in MS Windows easily.  No need for a port
> > really, just shake out all the bugs and driver issues.
> >
> > Now where was that link...
> > http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/duallicense.html#q113
> >
> > Late Q2 2005.  Probally at least a few months after that before a
> > WinMyth is fully functional.
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:12:27 -0800, Ross Campbell
> > <ross.campbell at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > My friend and I are seniors at the University of California,
> > > > Riverside, and we are trying to find a fun project we can work on
> for
> > > > our senior project.  However, this is supposed to be a "compilers"
> > > > class, but our professor is open to ideas for our project, as long
> as it
> > > > is somewhat compiler related.
> > >
> > > Finish porting MythTV to Cygwin so that Windows can be used as a fully
> > > functional MythTV frontend.
> > >
> > > -Ross
> > >
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