[mythtv] mythtv- code architecture

khalid ashraf khalid_eee at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 13 05:12:46 UTC 2007


Hello,
  I am new to the world of mythtv. Could anyone
suggest me where I can get a conprehensive details of
the architecture of MythTV specially its coding. 

Khalid Ashraf

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>    1. Re: [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3394: GPL FLV
> Player for	MythWeb
>       (Chris Petersen)
>    2. Re: [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3363:
> TranslateKeyPress:	prefer
>       local action over jump point's (Yeechang Lee)
>    3. Re: IVTV VBI reading (Bruce Markey)
>    4. Re: ffmpeg sync (Bruce Markey)
>    5. Re: adding gnome-power-manager/HAL support to
> mythtv (Ma Begaj)
>    6. Re: Making the state of the frontend dependant
> on the	state
>       of the TV/monitor? (Ma Begaj)
>    7. Re: Making the state of the frontend dependant
> on the
>       (Martin Ebourne)
>    8. Re: adding gnome-power-manager/HAL support to
> mythtv
>       (Colin Guthrie)
>    9. Re: [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3394: GPL FLV
> Player for MythWeb
>       (Dan Wilga)
>   10. Re: [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3601: Segfault in
>       GenericTree::addNode (stanley kamithi)
>   11. Issues updating trac tickets (Steven Ellis)
>   12. Re: Issues updating trac tickets (Anduin
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>   13. Re: ffmpeg sync (Janne Grunau)
>   14. Jump points and local overrides (Roo)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:30:59 -0700
> From: Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3394:
> GPL FLV Player
> 	for	MythWeb
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <466D78C3.4070702 at forevermore.net>
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> 
> Dan Wilga wrote:
> > Just guessing, but might the problem be be that
> ffmpeg is running 
> > very slowly (around 10 fps) and the player isn't
> getting data fast 
> > enough?
> 
> It could be, yes.
> 
> > On a somewhat unrelated topic, should ffmpeg be
> able to handle 
> > MPEG4-transcoded files? Mine, at least, can't; it
> errors-out. If this 
> > is a fault of my version of ffmpeg, then I think
> the player should 
> > give a meaningful error message in this case,
> rather than simply 
> > doing nothing. It would prevent a lot of user
> head-scratching.
> 
> MythTV, and *only* MythTV (despite some reports to
> the contrary about
> mplayer) is the only program that can correctly
> decipher nuv files
> created by MythTV.
> 
> As I have stated many times before, the FLV player
> currently in MythWeb
> SVN is a *proof of concept* player, and would be
> removed/disabled if .21
> were to be released today.  It only works with .mpg
> files, and has lots
> of issues (as you and others have reported).  Most
> of them can't/won't
> be fixed, especially things related to ffmpeg,
> because ffmpeg isn't part
> of the final plan.
> 
> -Chris
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:39:28 -0700
> From: Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3363:
> 	TranslateKeyPress:	prefer local action over jump
> point's
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
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> Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> says:
> > If anyone else can think of places where a
> jumppoint seems to do the
> > wrong thing in certain contexts, now would be a
> great time to
> > mention it.
> 
> I'd still prefer the generic prefer-local-to-global
> patch to a
> specific approach, but since that isn't in the cards
> at the moment
> (Why was that reverted, anyway?), as Chris
> mentioned, the Jumppoints
> for Program Guide and Program Finder should call the
> special
> put-playback-on-pause-and-permit-return-to-playback
> versions of these
> screens when in any playback mode, not just Live TV.
> I've been using
> John Poet's patch
>
(<URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/232375#232375>),
> which does work this way, for so long that I didn't
> realize the
> current approach didn't already act this way.
> 
> Other than that, though, I can't think of anything,
> in part because
> the above are the only two such special versions of
> mythfrontend
> screens that currently exist. (I'd love Upcoming
> Recordings and System
> Status to also be able to act in this way, by the
> way.)
> 
> Once the jumppoint rewiring is done, shouldn't the
> "M" and "#" keys be
> deleted? I can't think of any situation that one
> would, while watching
> Live TV or a recording, want to be able to bring up
> both the
> non-special and special versions of Program Guide or
> Program Finder,
> so one Jumppoint key for each should suffice in all
> circumstances.
> 
> -- 
> Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> | +1 650 776 7763 |
> San Francisco CA US
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:19:53 -0700
> From: Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] IVTV VBI reading
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>,
> Hans Verkuil
> 	<hverkuil at xs4all.nl>
> Message-ID: <466D8439.1060809 at lvcm.com>
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> Bruce Markey wrote:
> > Hans Verkuil wrote:
> ...
> >>>>  but scaling does introduce slight amount of
> >>>> ghosting. Whether this is a driver, firmware or
> hardware bug is
> >>>> something that I need to look into one of these
> days.
> >>> This seems to be a severe issue if only the
> extreme maximum
> >>> resolution is considered to be acceptable. A
> 720x480 
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