[mythtv] DVB Support suggested Roadmap

Richard King rak at cs.man.ac.uk
Mon Apr 21 00:43:48 EDT 2003


Sticking my nose back in :) 

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Ben Bucksch wrote:

> Here is my current (personal?) idea what's necessary for DVB support. I 
> haven't looked much at the MythTV code yet (only DB layout), to see how 
> it handles channel tuning. Please correct me. Did I miss something?
I've cut alot here because I haven't got enough time to do a thorough 
point by point run through. However, I basically think you're right that 
merging with VDR would not be the best way to approach getting DVB support 
in Myth.

As far as your plan goes I think that getting the hackish support working 
only requires getting the MPEG data into Myth. External channel changing 
can take care of the rest.

For the 'full' support in Myth I think its important to get the database 
into a shape that fully encompases the data in channels.conf. I don't like 
the idea of putting the channels.conf line in one field because external 
channel changing will be good enough until we want full support and then I 
think that the everything in one field approach is insufficient anyway.

Anyway I generally like what you are suggesting and I'm sorry that I 
havent got the time right now to get involved properly and go into 
detail (I will at the start of june).

Good luck to everybody trying to get this working. 

-- 
Richard King
E-mail: rak at cs.man.ac.uk



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