Folks,
Now that mythtv scheduling is up and running, I'm thinking of dusting off my ideas for more native GBPVR support.
Although we have the emulation mode on the system, GBPVR itself is *extremely* power hungry so that on low
end (but silent :-) ) systems like mine it runs unacceptably slowly. That's the original reason why I moved to the much more stable and responsive mvpmc.
What I'm thinking of doing is a bit kludgy. Basically I propose running a small "Conversion Server" that talks to MVPMC using myth protocol, and then interfaces more directly with GBPVR.
This means I can a) leverage much of the existing mythtv support in mvpmc b) means I don't have to look too much at adding new stuff to the mvpmc build c) the approach should be flexible enough to adapt to other PVR systems without changing MVPMC too much.
Can anyone give me any info to speed up the process? In particular I'm looking for:
1) Details of the bits of Myth protocol used by mvpmc to get program info, schedules etc.
2) Details of how MVPMC gets the TV guide. I know it queries MySQL directly but what sort of queries are they?
I'm thinking that instead of querying the database the MVPMC should use some extensions to mythprotocol to do the SQL queries in a common format and let the conversion server do the database queries. Why? Because GBPVR currently either uses MS Access (phhtt!) or SQLite, I don't want to fiddle with database drivers or porting SQLite to MediaMVP so I'd like to offload the complexity off box.
I realise I could reverse engineer the code to do this, but I was hoping for a leg up!
Cheers
Steve
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