I'd be very interested in both these features but i'm affraid that I can't
really be any help. I also have a feeling that the second part of this
(duplicate detection) would need some kind of sql backend (maybe SqlLite,
since it's already used for caching reasons?).
On 12/30/06, Andrew Flegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
With the announcement of v1.7, I'm moving back to Freevo after a brief
try of MythTV when I got my DVB card. Mainly due to Myth's bloat,
speed (or lack of) and the abysmal quality of the audio output and UI
of MythMusic.
However, there are a couple of things which are now beginning to bug
me enough to get into fixing them myself. Is anyone else working on
these, or have any ideas on how to approach them?
Anamorphic skin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I've got a 16:9 CRT TV in the UK, connected over S-Video. X is running
at 800x600 (with overscan). Since the TV stretches the image
horizontally, this means non-square pixels. The current themes look
rather "fat" like this, so I'm thinking of working on an anamorphic
skin which would look better on these widescreen TVs.
Since I'm not an artist, I imagine this will mostly be done by
squishing images in a current theme horizontally, and modifying the
co-ordinates to take it into account. Since font width/height can't be
specified separately, I'm currently using Deja Vu Sans Condensed,
which looks alright stretched back out.
Is there such a theme already, or would there be a better way of
scaling everything horizontally (perhaps in kaa?) giving the ability
to define a theme which has ~1400 pixels horizontally to play with,
which get squished to 800 on output?
Duplicate recordings
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Freevo's scheduling looks almost as powerful as MythTV's however there
doesn't seem to be any duplicate detection?
Ideally when scheduling favourites, it would look through the list of
previously recorded programmes and identify duplicates by subtitle or
- if no subtitle - description. It'd then not record it again.
Is this currently acheivable? Is it hackable with some scripts around
the existing code, or do I need to add to the recordserver to keep
note of all the recorded programmes, and modify scheduleFavorites() to
check this list?
Any thoughts on either of these which people have, or if people have
worked on it before, or even if they're done already and I just need
to flick switch X, would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
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