Re: AW: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua King
On 13/10/05 11:52 PM, "Keith C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, embedded databases. I've got a nice Mac laptop that goes on > the road and runs MythFrontEnd pretty well. But I can't take a > backend with me. If you're running Tiger you can take the backend with you -- mySQL is downloadable f

RE: AW: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-13 Thread Mark Edwards
> Of course, this adds the option to have a 320x240 mpeg4 transcode > profile that writes to a "put these files on my video iPod" directory. This bits easy, I allready have a user job to transfer the morning news to my phone so I can watch on the bus :) _

Re: AW: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-13 Thread Keith C
I had a long trailing thought yesterday about a couple of items that have been discussed in this thread and others : using embedded databases and having multiple storage areas. They sort of overlapped a little and I thought I would throw it up here just for people to think about. First,

AW: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-13 Thread Jochen Kühner
like this in the next few months... -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Colin Guthrie Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2005 00:42 An: Development of mythtv Betreff: Re: [mythtv] Development task list: J. Donavan Stanley wrote: > Is

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-12 Thread Colin Guthrie
J. Donavan Stanley wrote: Isaac Richards wrote: I got an offer from someone (jams on the #mythtv channel) to do a mockup using mambo(? I think). I'd like to keep a somewhat similar look to the website - I kinda like the blue/grey. =) Mambo is VERY nice. Plus I've got code for importing

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-10 Thread J. Donavan Stanley
Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Heh. When I wrote the original plugin API (thought it can barely be called such), I didn't (and still don't) know anything about any other plugin systems at the source-code level; it was really just a little experiment I did that worked & I decided to submit the patch.

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-10 Thread J. Donavan Stanley
Isaac Richards wrote: I got an offer from someone (jams on the #mythtv channel) to do a mockup using mambo(? I think). I'd like to keep a somewhat similar look to the website - I kinda like the blue/grey. =) Mambo is VERY nice. Plus I've got code for importing articles to it from vario

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Ed W
Thoughts/comments? OK, one other thing that is fairly dear to my heart... I would like to seperate the generation of the video streams a little more seperate from the consumption (thinking backend now). The idea would be that even when all the cards are recording tv you can still go to

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Isaac Richards
On Thursday 06 October 2005 06:07 pm, Ed W wrote: > Isaac Richards wrote: > >On Wednesday 05 October 2005 06:09 pm, Ed W wrote: > > > > > >>Actually, it occurs to me suddenly that what we really want is to build > >>a *single* video & audio playing application which is remote > >>controllable, but

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Ed W
Isaac Richards wrote: On Wednesday 05 October 2005 06:09 pm, Ed W wrote: Actually, it occurs to me suddenly that what we really want is to build a *single* video & audio playing application which is remote controllable, but has NO gui. That's Thor's mfd. =) Agree! But you wer

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Matt
On 10/5/05, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 05 October 2005 06:43 am, Ed W wrote:> - "New Website" - Whilst accepting that wikis are not your thing I have > had a lot of success recently with pmwiki for making websites.  The nice> bit about the wiki is the seperation of cont

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:21 +0200, Gerd v. Egidy wrote: > > > > [RPC slow, not securable] > > > > > > I'm just thinking about making things easier for other programs to > > > interoperate with myth, is all. > > > > As far as I know these are the options: CORBA, DBUS, DCE, DCOM, DCOP, > > Sun RPC, X

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread spam
ses shared libs), stripped - Original Message - From: Ross Campbell To: Development of mythtv Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv] Development task list: On 10/6/05, Joseph A. Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don'

RE: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread David Blain
Robert Johnston wrote: > Would not Rendezvous be more advantagous, to allow auto-discovery of > frontends/backends/plugin servers? I am not familiar with all the features of Rendezvous, however, a uPNP implementation gives us both the auto-discovery and a selection of usable "thin" frontends that

RE: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread David Blain
Robert Kulagowski wrote: > Were you able to use any of the stuff at cybergarage? > http://www.cybergarage.org/net/index.html I decided early on that I wanted this to be a learning experience, so I am writing it all from scratch. I am making good progress on the various underlying protocols (SSD

RE: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread David Blain
> I'd love to see someone do a "smart remote" app that'd run on a pda. Two > way > communication, preview vids, etc. I've got an Axim x50v just beggin to be > put to use like this. =) The smart remote is one of the reasons I started the uPNP implementation... I want to be able to use my x50v a

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Ross Campbell
On 10/6/05, Joseph A. Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't imagine we have too many folks running Mython a SPARC... :=) Hmm... Those are just the sort of challenges I like :) What current/known issues exist with mythtv as a frontend and/or backend on different architectures and OSes? What pl

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Johnston
On 06/10/05, Robert Kulagowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Blain wrote: > > I just wanted to let everyone know that I am currently implementing uPNP for > > MythBackend. I am focusing on the Content Directory Service (CDS) first and > > plan on making it extensible to allow add-ins the abil

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Gerd v. Egidy
> > > [RPC slow, not securable] > > > > I'm just thinking about making things easier for other programs to > > interoperate with myth, is all. > > As far as I know these are the options: CORBA, DBUS, DCE, DCOM, DCOP, > Sun RPC, XML-RPC, SOAP, MBUS, ICE. > > AFAIC: CORBA, DCOM and Sun RPC are not se

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Kulagowski
David Blain wrote: I just wanted to let everyone know that I am currently implementing uPNP for MythBackend. I am focusing on the Content Directory Service (CDS) first and plan on making it extensible to allow add-ins the ability to register there own content to be listed. Were you able to use

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 06 October 2005 10:03, Daniel Kristjansson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:35 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: > > > > As for incorporating the plug-ins... I'd rather see a plugin API > > > 2.0 > > > with calls added to make plug-ins embeddable, focus switchable, > > > etc. > > I jus

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:35 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: > Qt _does_ include its own copy of SQLite. If it were acceptable to go > through > the backend for queries, this could possibly be used. I think someone mentioned using a DB micro-kernel on the backend to handle DB queries, I think this

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-06 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 19:01, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:48:52PM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > Note that, as of a few months ago, SQLite did not work on 64-bit > > architectures. *Major* 32-bit assumptions in the code base. I don't > > know what the status is

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Kevin Kuphal
David Blain wrote: I just wanted to let everyone know that I am currently implementing uPNP for MythBackend. I am focusing on the Content Directory Service (CDS) first and plan on making it extensible to allow add-ins the ability to register there own content to be listed. I was a little appre

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread David Whyte
> > Thanks for giving us a list of "Possible Future Development". It helps > knowing what direction you see MythTv going in. > Heck yes, the list of proposed features is sweet. And Isaac surprised me too, I didn't think he would be keen on many of those things, but alas he proved me wrong...agai

RE: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread David Blain
f mythtv Subject: [mythtv] Development task list: Just wrote up a short list of tasks that I think would be good directions for myth to go in: http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/FutureDevelopment Thoughts/comments? Isaac ___ mythtv-dev mailing list m

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Kundinger
If I had to guess at the two things that would move Myth towards being more of a home entertainment Wunderbox, it would be: 1) Anything to make install and setup easier. (already on the list) 2) Easy to install and use, one-click (or relatively few clicks) DVD-burning of recordings capability.

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Isaac Richards wrote: On a side note, I really would like to contribute more to the documentation/wiki but it begs for a more official structure as a guideline to start and I'm afraid that just moving the .info stuff to .org lacks the adequate skeleton to make the information flow properly and b

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Fernando Vilas
On Wednesday October 5 2005 17:23, Isaac Richards wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 02:48 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 13:35, Isaac Richards wrote: > > > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 08:38 am, Daniel Kristjansson wrote: > > > > I would really like MythTV to be so

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:48:52PM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > Note that, as of a few months ago, SQLite did not work on 64-bit > architectures. *Major* 32-bit assumptions in the code base. I don't > know what the status is right now. Both SQLite 2.8.16 and 3.2.7 are available on Debian o

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 06:17 pm, Ed W wrote: > >I'd love to see someone do a "smart remote" app that'd run on a pda. Two > > way communication, preview vids, etc. I've got an Axim x50v just beggin > > to be put to use like this. =) > > Doesn't that run windows...? > > Probably it crashes to

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 02:48 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 13:35, Isaac Richards wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 08:38 am, Daniel Kristjansson wrote: > > > I would really like MythTV to be something my completely > > > non-technical > > > in-laws could ins

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Ed W
I'd love to see someone do a "smart remote" app that'd run on a pda. Two way communication, preview vids, etc. I've got an Axim x50v just beggin to be put to use like this. =) Doesn't that run windows...? Probably it crashes to often to be useful as a remote control ;-) Are you famili

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 06:09 pm, Ed W wrote: > Actually, it occurs to me suddenly that what we really want is to build > a *single* video & audio playing application which is remote > controllable, but has NO gui. That's Thor's mfd. =) Isaac ___

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Ed W
As for incorporating the plug-ins... I'd rather see a plugin API 2.0 with calls added to make plug-ins embeddable, focus switchable, etc. I just would like to see the user interfaces for the various plugins more integrated, really. Whether that's through absorbing the plugins or anot

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 03:03 pm, Keith C wrote: > On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > > Have you thought about just making the whole thing a wiki? > > Mediawiki can lock pages to administrators and it is easy enough to > > do what you're looking for with the wiki software. I th

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Ed W
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Isaac Richards wrote: I just want something that is: - secure. - Manages news, downloads, weblinks _easily_. I just don't have tons of time to update the website, and the current stuff I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to update. I basically had to gut out the adm

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Keith C
On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Isaac Richards wrote: I just want something that is: - secure. - Manages news, downloads, weblinks _easily_. I just don't have tons of time to update the website, and the current stuff I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to update. I b

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Isaac Richards wrote: I just want something that is: - secure. - Manages news, downloads, weblinks _easily_. I just don't have tons of time to update the website, and the current stuff I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to update. I basically had to gut out the administration files from

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 13:35, Isaac Richards wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 08:38 am, Daniel Kristjansson wrote: > > I would really like MythTV to be something my completely > > non-technical > > in-laws could install, so I'm also interested in the SQL abstraction > > as > > it mig

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 08:38 am, Daniel Kristjansson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 04:12 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: > > Just wrote up a short list of tasks that I think would be good directions > > for myth to go in: > > http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/FutureDevelopment > > The zeroconf/re

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 06:43 am, Ed W wrote: > >http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/FutureDevelopment > > > >Thoughts/comments? > > My personal "interests" are: > > - in getting a high quality audio layer out through something like Jack > so that I can futz with the sound. I use a pretty high en

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread J. Donavan Stanley
Daniel Kristjansson wrote: The zeroconf/rendevous has been on my roadmap for a while, I see it as part of making MythTV easier to set-up. It eliminates the need to know IP addresses on the 95% of home networks it works on; which comprises almost all the people who think, IP address, wha? I'

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Micah F. Galizia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Isaac Richards wrote: > Just wrote up a short list of tasks that I think would be good directions for > myth to go in: > > http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/FutureDevelopment > > Thoughts/comments? I'm all for simplifying the setup of and communicati

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 04:12 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: > Just wrote up a short list of tasks that I think would be good directions for > myth to go in: > http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/FutureDevelopment The zeroconf/rendevous has been on my roadmap for a while, I see it as part of making MythT

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Ed W
http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/FutureDevelopment Thoughts/comments? My personal "interests" are: - in getting a high quality audio layer out through something like Jack so that I can futz with the sound. I use a pretty high end audio system which actually does all the crossovers and c

Re: [mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Neale Swinnerton
wrt to the last point about consolidating the UI, how about rather than incorporating exising plugins, defining a richer extension mechanism, you could then let plugins modify 'core' ui elements in a controlled way. The eclipse project has, IMO, a pretty good extension mechanism, something along t

[mythtv] Development task list:

2005-10-05 Thread Isaac Richards
Just wrote up a short list of tasks that I think would be good directions for myth to go in: http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/FutureDevelopment Thoughts/comments? Isaac ___ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman