[mythtv] MythTV on Windows

[Jochen Kühner]

Charles Mason schrieb:
> Hi All,
>
>   
>> 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).
>>     
>
>
> I have just tried the binary of the early windows port of MythTV on my
> Vista 3.2 gig P4. Firstly I have to say its a big step forwards. As
> good a linux is many users have mac and windows boxes on the same
> network, which up until now were unable to use mythtv. The best I
> could do was to use Tapeworm, Samaba and VLC to at least let me watch
> recordings on my windows machine. Having the full front end is much
> better.
>
> I realise its fairly early code but I have a couple of questions.
> Firstly how do you change the relative path it uses to find the base
> mythtv directory. At present I had to recreate
> C:\MinGW\home\tanasa\mythtv_rel on my machine to get it to find themes
> and the like?
>
> Secondly I have problems running mythtv.exe Most of my experience
> comes through running mythfrontend.exe directly. What does mythtv.exe
> do how does it relate to mythfrontend and mythbackend. When I run
> mythtv.exe, mythfrontend appears to load briefly then the screen goes
> black and nothing happens. If I look at the console output its
> constantly printing out the below two lines.
>
>            2007-12-05 18:11:32.576 couldn't find base dialog
>            Non-recursive mutex already locked by this thread
>
>
> When I run mythfrontend.exe, I get a few errors about missing pieces
> of theme, but on the whole the gui works ok. When I try and play a
> recording or live tv the frame rate is really low, but the CPU usage
> is only around 30% so its certainly not running out of CPU time. The
> sound is fine but keeps repeating little chunks of audio to keep it in
> sync with the really slow video. The video is slow if I select directx
> or direct3d as the output method.
>
> I shall have a bit more of play with it and see if I can work our why
> the video is so slow. If you want any more info about how it performs
> let me know. I would be interested in testing any future versions you
> make. Hopefully in the not too distant future we can have a pretty
> installer for the windows version of the MythTV fronted.
>
> Keep up the good work.
>
> Charlie
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there is also mythtvplayer for windows...