[mythtv] XMLTV Spanish, gist, DVB & localization

[Ben Bucksch]

ramon.roca at xcombo.com wrote:

> I'm also interested in to merge analog tv, which MythTV does pretty 
> well, with DVB (projects like vdr <http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/>do very 
> well)

me too

> therefore have a single frontend for all. That would be nice in 
> Europe, and probably to bring a better support for US DirectTV also.

(not sure, if DirecTV can be used with a built-in card or only with an 
external tuner, so I don't know, if it's comparable from the MythTV side.)

> I thought that adding a "plugin" to MythTV that works in a similar way 
> as kvdr <http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala/> does, that could be quite 
> simple, although the best way should be, of course, direct support for 
> DVB capture cards at the mythtv player.... comments welcome!

I found a few relevant threads/posts
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=54770> 
Much of that thread goes around feeding MPEG2 directly to MythTV, which 
I assume is fixed now in the light of the Win TV PVR 250, but it still 
has some information.
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=674> 
Interesting - I'm not sure, if that resulted in any code?
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=57437#57437> 
I wrote that before I read the above, but might still have a few useful 
ideas, e.g. terminology

I didn't (well, almost) look into the code yet to see what needs to be done.

Ben