[mythtv] MythTV on Windows

David Backeberg dbackeberg at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 22:03:59 UTC 2007


You shouldn't need to reimplement cdparanoia. There are free (as in
GPL) Windows cdrippers out there like cdEX:
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

On Dec 4, 2007 4:10 PM, Andrei Tanas <andrei at tanas.ca> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I've been working on Windows port of MythTV for some time, and I finally
> have something to show. Instead of using Cygwin as attempted in the past, I
> switched completely to MinGW, implemented Direct3D-based video renderer
> (which works fine in Vista, as opposed to DirectX overlays) and Windows
> audio, made tons of small corrections (some of them are actual MythTV bugs).
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> Things that work:
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>   Frontend
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>     UI works fine, including OpenGL painter
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>     Live TV and recorded TV playback
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>     Video playback (mythvideo), including ISO images of DVD disks
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>     Program guide
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>   Plugins
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>     MythVideo - works fine
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>     MythControls
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> Things that can be compiled but have not been tested
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>     mythtranscode, mythcommflag,
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>     MythMusic (including libvisual and sdl), MythGallery, MythWeather,
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>     MythMovies
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> Things that don't work:
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>   Backend: no video capture (though it shouldn't be too hard to implement
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>     DirectShow-based capture), does not respond to socket connections
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>   Frontend: there's a major problem with the "tv_out" QWidget caused by the
> fact
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>     that it's created on a different thread (not the main UI thread).
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>     In Windows this causes all sorts of problems, the worst of which is the
> frontend
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>     hanging when trying to switch to program guide from live tv.
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>   CD ripping: it looked like it was going to take too long to port
> cdparanoia to
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>     Windows so I ended up disabling ripping altogether
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>   CD playback: windows cd device handling needs to be implemented in
> libcdaudio
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> I've posted the patch against current SVN (15016) here:
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> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4270
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> And those who want to try some of the binaries (with all the bugs, it's hard
> to actually use them) here:
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> http://tanas.ca/mythtv.zip (30MB, download is limited to 800kbps).
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> It is currently very buggy of course, but it does work, and I'd like to know
> what it would take to have it included in SVN so that more developers could
> collaborate on Windows version.
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> Regards,
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> Andrei Tanas.
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