[mythtv-users] mythtvosd for mythui

[Chris Rouch]

On 3/26/06, Kevin Venkiteswaran <kkvenkit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > http://www.ignavus.net/software.html and for those on ATrpms it's
> > > available there too via "apt-get install xosd".
> >
> > Ooops - this is just a library, not an app. Does anyone know if
> > there's an app that can be used off the shelf for non-programmers like
> > me?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Phill
>
> Included in the xosd library distribution should be some binaries,
> specifically osd_cat.
>
> There are system specific packages too. Ie, the debian info is here:
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xosd-bin
>
> While xosd supports displaying info on-screen, it's not within the myth
> framework and thus doesn't use myth's themes.
>
> I'd love to see more hooks to myth's osd support, and a more extensive
> osd all-around. Ie, an ability to display messages at any time, and to
> require the messages to be acknowledged by the user. A sample use case:
> voice mail notification. Does anyone share similar desires? Is it worth
> me putting this to the devs, and trying to develop this myself?

Yes - I think this would be useful. Similarly it would be nice to have
an integrated alarm clock function via the osd system. Even nicer
would be if there was an option to speed up the current playback so
that it will finish exactly at the alarm time.


Chris