[mythtv] MythTV: Windows frontend

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 10 October 2003 06:28 pm, Alex wrote:
> Hi, I was looking around for a way to get a windows machine to be the
> frontend for a mythtv backend, but I wasn't able to find anything. Has
> anyone seen anything that could be used for this? Keep in mind I want all
> the features, like live tv and so on, so simple streaming solutions like
> videolan wouldn't cut it.
> 
> I've tried compiling mythtv in cygwin and I'm stuck getting some weird
> scope errors involving timeval in audioplayeross.h (I can fix it by
> making a struct timeval definition in the main class, but then it doesn't
> work in audioplayeross.cpp when it tries to get the timeval for use in
> gettimeofday()). Any ideas with this?
> 
> At this point, I'm thinking of just writing my own windows frontend. Is
> there a protocol description document somewhere, or do I have to go
> hunting in the source?

Happy hunting! :-)

If only Trolltech would GPL the Win32 version of Qt, then porting the UI would 
be (mostly) a matter of recompiling.  Of course, the output stuff would all 
have to be rewritten for a non-X11 system.

Good luck.

-JAC