[mythtv] MythTV: Windows frontend

[Torbjörn Jansson]

The directshow filters im working on works prety well now.
There is a few bugs but it works.

I have created a compiled version of it that you can try, it's on
sourceforge 
( http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsmyth )

It contains the filters and some explorer shell extensions, two
propertypages for nuv files and a column header extension for windows
explorer.

One of the propertypages shows information from the nuv file and the other
one connects to the mysql server and shows for example title, description
category.
The column header extension also uses mysql so you can have the titles from
the database shows in windows explorer, that makes it a bit easier to find
out what file is what.

Shortly after I created the binary package I found a smal bug in the shell
extensions with files larger than 2Gb that prevents it from getting the file
length ( I have a fix for it, its just a 1 line fix).
And the seeking can be improved too.

I have only tried it with mythtv 0.11 files.
It woud be intresting to know if someone with hardware mjpeg coud test if it
works, since I can't test that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Alan Snyder
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 9:23 PM
> To: 'Development of mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv] MythTV: Windows frontend
> 
> 
> The short answer(s):
> 
> In my opinion, simply being able to play recorded
> programs
> from a windows machine (selected via mythweb or
> otherwise),
> by accessing the files on a mounted drive, would be
> enough
> for some users.  If you have a PVR-250, the mpeg2
> files
> should play (just associate .nuv with the player of
> your
> choice).  If not, myth's .nuv files won't play. 
> There's
> been no mention on the list for some time now of a
> DirectShow filter to play myth .nuv files natively.
> 
> An option that might be easily coded is to look at
> Chris
> Petersen's nuvexport, which will convert any Myth file
> to vcd mpeg, svcd mpeg, divx, or just move it to a new
> location and delete it from the database.  A similar
> script run in a cron job could convert all new
> recordings
> to a standard format like divx.  Options might be to
> just leave the converted file in a chosen place,
> delete
> the original and register the file with MythVideo,
> etc.
> With a little more coding, perhaps this kind of
> capability
> would be an alternative or option to the transcoder. 
> Some
> of these ideas are contrary to the orginal MythBox
> notion.
>