[mythtv] XMLTV Spanish, gist, DVB & localization

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 05:53:21PM +0200, ramon.roca at xcombo.com wrote:

> I've patched the attached files in order to support the Spanish xmltv
> graber that I wrote at the xmltv project and it's available since version
> 0.5.9.

The filldata.cpp patch looks reversed.

> Notes: -the recently added gist source seems to introduce a new
> requirement to compile from previous versions: qt 3., if is not there
> fails when calling toTime_t, this functiona was not present on qt 3.0

This is fixed in current CVS.

> I've also seen at the CVS the i18n directory. I'm thinking on working for
> localization mythTV for Spanish and Catalan. I'm wondering if anybody is
> working already on it. In the meantime, I would appreciate if somebody can
> give me a clue or point to a how-to doc (i18n for idiots?) since I never
> did it before. Just for doing it in the correct way. 

http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/i18n.html

> I'm also interested in to merge analog tv, which MythTV does pretty well,
> with DVB (projects like vdr do very well) therefore have a single frontend
> for all. That would be nice in Europe, and probably to bring a better
> support for US DirectTV also. I thought that adding a "plugin" to MythTV
> that works in a similar way as kvdr 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!

These cards provide an MPEG-2 stream, no?  There is now preliminary support
in CVS for some hardware MPEG-2 capture cards, so some of the infrastructure
should be there already.  I think the DVB drivers provide a v4l device, so
this should be quite similar.

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 - mdz