bungle wrote: > First, thanks to everyone involved in mvpmc - I have two MVPs that get a lot > of use with Myth via mvpmc. > > I've looked through the lists, git commits, and user pages, but there's not > much (recent) news regarding the plugin rewrite for the PCH. Is this still > ongoing? If so, how's it going? > > Thanks, > John
Hi John... Martin and/or Jon should chime in any second now. But until then - I think we are waiting on more driver information. Currently, there is this application called Mono that plays all the media on an NMT/PCH. I believe the application is written by Syabas. So it goes like this: When you want to play media you had over control to Mono. And, along w/that goes all the controls. Not very interesting and certainly isn't going to be acceptable for those of us who like our mythtv features. Even for music this isn't (at least for me) acceptable. We have been tossing around an idea where we intercept the IR codes and use a local display for music. We still need to relinquish control of the sound and screen to Mono, but we would at least control the local display and receiving IR commands. At that point, it would be more of a question of how to prematurely kill Mono should someone press the stop button before the music reaches the end of the song. This need for SigmaDesign (hardware) / Syabas (software) disclosure thingy is nothing new (well, new to the PCH/NMT). This combination of hardware and software has been used for years in many little-known and well-known media clients. So, I'm not sure what to expect (i.e. will things ever change?). There are people who think SigmaDesign is nuts for not disclosing proprietary information - thinking opensource will create a whole new market for the SigmaDesign hardware. Then again there once were 3 game box companies XBOX, PlayStation and Dream...something...or...other - (can't remember) until someone cracked the copy protection on the Dream...something (yeah, I know apples and oranges - I'm tired) babble babble babble... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
