[mythtv] [Patch] CD Monitoring subsystem

[Tako Schotanus]

Yes, and that switching in itself is already a feature worth having 
because I would love to be able to just press a button on the remote and 
immediately switch to a different module. (If I want to play music I 
don't want to have to turn on my TV just to navigate the menus)

Had been thinking about putting it in, but I've been too busy with other 
things lately. So if you're going to do it I'll just sit back and wait :-)

My idea about it was that every plugin could have a list of "actions" it 
supports, like this:

MainMenu
  - tv
  - music
  - movies
  - weather
  - dvd
  - news
  - exit

MythMusic
  - play
  - scan
  - import
  - mainmenu

MythDvd
  - play
  - rip
  - mainmenu

etc.

Inserting a DVD could then issue the following sequence of commands:
  - mainmenu
  - dvd
  - play
en playback would start.

Of course plugins which have dialogs open at that moment will probably 
ignore the commands, other might first ask the user if they really want 
to switch. Dunno.

The good thing about this is that we could easily make a new socket that 
accepts these kinds of commands and have a way to externally control the 
frontend.

Just some silly ideas I had :-)

Cheers,
 -Tako


J Donavan Stanley wrote:

>I'm in the process now of plugging it in to the frontend, in mount only
>mode. That will give us the equivalent of running "autorun -mountonly".
>Once that's in place I need to look at how to elegantly perform the
>switches to the various plugins that need activated when media is
>inserted.
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>On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 05:02, Tako Schotanus wrote:
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>>Perfect! I've wanted this option for a long time already! :-)
>>
>>-Tako
>>
>>J Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>>This patch modifies libmyth to add support for monitoring CDROM
>>>devices.  It's based on the autorun application used by KDE. This is the
>>>first of at least two patches, and lays the ground work for the
>>>additional patches.  I plan on adding support for plugins to register
>>>themselves for CD insert notification from the main application.  That
>>>way when you stick in an audio CD Myth can switch to MythCD if it's
>>>installed, likewise MythDVD.  Eventually I'd like to extend it out so
>>>that when you pop in a data disk you get prompted with a menu that looks
>>>something like this:
>>>
>>>	You've just inserted a data disk what would you like to do?
>>>	------------------------------------------------------------
>>>	Scan this disk for audio files to add to my collection.
>>>	Scan this disk for video files to add to my collection.
>>>	Scan this disk for images files to add to my collection.
>>>
>>>I'd also like to look into some sort of autoplay feature where the
>>>system could look for a specific file on the CD and take action based on
>>>it.  For example, load a playlist and start playing music from the CD.
>>>	
>>>
>>>
>>>Within the two new source files are three new classes:
>>>
>>>Cdrom - An instance of a particular CDROM/DVD device.
>>>CDMonitor - The object that knows how to poll the various CD devices and
>>>keep track of their changes.
>>>CDSubscriber - A base class for objects that wish to receive CDROM
>>>notifications.
>>>
>>>The code contains a couple small enhancements / bug fixes over the
>>>autorun code it's based on such as properly sending out mount
>>>notifications for data disks and the ability to detect DVD disks for
>>>what they are instead of just calling them data disks.
>>>
>>>J. Donavan Stanley
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