On Tuesday 13 December 2005 03:04, Kalle Pokki wrote: > Isaac Richards wrote: > >On Monday 12 December 2005 13:50, Mike Frisch wrote: > >>Is anybody working on a port of the MythTV front end to a Nokia 770? > > > >I'm considering it. Well, not a frontend port, but more of a smart remote > >application. The thing doesn't really have the CPU to display normally > >recorded video from Myth. > > Do you plan to include scheduling recordings, browsing the EPG and stuff > like that in the desing? Through the web browser or as a real hildon > application?
Hadn't decided what all I'd want it to do, yet. Most likely scheduling, playback file selection, control during playback, music control, etc. Real app, not a web-browser, even though gtk is yucky. =) I'm not entirely sure about spending a bunch of time on something that's going to be tied to a single device, though. > I have been thinking of using the 770 as a smart remote for the mvpmc, > as I don't have a frontend computer near the TV. It would be great if > the scheduling functionality was done directly with myth itself. I think > I could also find some time to contribute to this. > > The 770 is actually capable to display MPEG-4 video, as it has > DSP-accelerated decoder for it. You just have to transcode to > low-resolution MPEG-4 first. The device comes with a pre-installed > trailer of the Ice Age, which looks pretty good. I wouldn't watch a > movie through the small screen, but for previews it should be ok. > Perhaps one could be fit a whole movie to a 512 MB memory card and watch > it on the road. Heh. I think your definition of 'pretty good' is a lot different than mine. The trailer on the 770 is 352x208 at 15fps, with 8kbps mp3 audio. Even so, it plays rather jerkily, and there's a lot of tearing during playback, and quite a few visible compression artifacts. Also, that trailer is animated content from a good source. Regular TV won't compress nearly as nicely. That's in the 'completely not worth it to spend any time on it' quality range, for me. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
