+1 I am also interested.
Looking forward to further posts. Jerry K. On 06/20/08 18:29, James C. McPherson wrote: > Ken Mays wrote: >> I originally worked on porting MythTV to Solaris about 1-2 years >> ago but OpenSolaris was still very fresh and XSun for Solaris 8/9/10 >> wasn't sufficient for the port back then. Many people have Xbox 360 >> and Playstation 3 units, but a few limitations exist on expanding >> these units or require more expensive hardware purchases instead of >> today's inexpensive COTS parts. >> >> What started as the "ultimate gaming rig for OpenSolaris" spawned a >> "ultimate set-top box for OpenSolaris" project. We just got the SoundBlaster >> X-Fi card registered under HCL and now Nvidia has provided beta drivers >> for the GTX 280 video card. Slowly, more device drivers are being added >> to the Sun repository which makes things a bit easier than before. >> >> So, a bit of hardware engineering gives us a nice two-tuner set-top >> unit design and a review of MythTV for OpenSolaris. >> >> This subject has to do with desktop engineering and multimedia >> software applications dealing with TV recording/playback/editing >> using OpenSolaris-based distros. >> >> I'll get back to this once SongBird is officially in the Sun IPS >> repository. :o) > > Hi Ken, > > I'm _very_ interested in getting MythTV running on OpenSolaris. > I've got some tv capture cards but have not had any time to work > on fixing the GPLv2 bt848 driver which drives them. > > What plans do you have for driver support? > > > thanks, > James > > >> ------ >> What is MythTV? >> MythTV is a GPL licensed suite of programs that allow you to build the >> mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software >> and operating systems. MythTV is known to work on Linux and Mac OS X >> (PowerPC and Intel). It does not run on Windows. >> >> MythTV has a number of capabilities. The television portion allows you to do >> the following: >> >> - You may pause, fast-forward and rewind live Television. >> - You may install multiple video capture cards to record more than one >> program at a time. >> - You can have multiple servers (called "backends"), each with multiple >> capture cards in them. All scheduling is performed by the Master backend, >> which arbitrates which recording will be performed by each device. All >> recording requests are managed by the Master backend, so you can schedule a >> recording from any client. >> - You can have multiple clients (called "frontends" in MythTV parlance), >> each with a common view of all available programs. Any client can watch any >> program that was recorded by any of the servers, assuming that they have the >> hardware capabilities to view the content; a low-powered frontend will not >> be able to watch HDTV, for example. Clients can be diskless and controlled >> entirely by a remote control. >> - You may use any combination of standard analog capture card, MPEG-2, >> MJPEG, DVB, HDTV, USB and firewire capture devices. With appropriate >> hardware, MythTV can control set top boxes, often found in digital cable and >> satellite TV systems. >> - Program Guide Data in North America is downloaded from >> schedulesdirect.org, a non-profit organization which has licensed data from >> Tribune Media Services. This service provides almost two weeks of scheduling >> information. Program Guide Data in other countries is obtained using XMLTV. >> MythTV uses this information to create a schedule that maximizes the number >> of programs that can be recorded if you don't have enough tuners. >> MythTV implements a UPNP server, so a UPNP client should automatically see >> content from your MythTV system. >> >> Other modules in MythTV include: >> - MythArchive, a tool to create DVDs >> - MythBrowser, a web browser >> - MythControls, an application to configure your remote control >> - MythFlix, a Netflix module >> - MythGallery, a picture-viewing application >> - MythGame >> - MythMusic, a music playing / ripping application which supports MP3 and >> FLAC >> - MythNews, a RSS news grabber >> - MythPhone, phone and videophone using SIP. >> - MythVideo, DVD ripper and a media-viewer for content not created within >> MythTV >> - MythWeather >> MythWeb, which allows you to control your MythTV system using a web browser. >> With MythWeb, you can schedule and delete recordings, change keybindings and >> more. With proper security, you may even schedule a program over the >> Internet and have it immediately acted on by the Master backend. >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > >
