[mythtv-users] MythTv Player 0.1a for windows

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Mon Sep 25 19:59:37 UTC 2006


On Sunday 24 September 2006 4:09 pm, Mikkel Stensgaard wrote:
> Hi fellow MythTv users
>
> For quite some time I have been working on a player for MythTv on
> windows. The reason is that I want to be able to watch livetv on my
> windows pc, and that i want proper network buffering. Due to my wireless
> network other players sometime cause the video to stall or even deadlock.
>
> The goals of the player are:
>  - Small and fast
>  - Both windowed and fullscreen mode
>  - Network buffering
>  - LiveTv and channel switching directly from player
>  - Independent.. So no need for external codecs
>  - Simple.. Simple, clean GUI
<snip>
> I would like to get some feedback
> - First of all...Is it worth my time? Does anybody wants a mythtvplayer
> for windows, or do you just want to play from a samba-share or dsmyth?
> - Is it stable? bugs? .. please let me know if you find any bugs.
> - Does it work on version 0.20?
> - Are there any other features that would be nice?
> - Which features are most important?

Personally, I'd be more interested in someone getting the frontend itself 
working on windows, and not a separate player app.. =)

Isaac


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