[mythtv] Re: Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:01:57PM -0500, Jeff wrote:
> Can you point me at this discussion?

http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2005-February/032730.html

> Thursday, March 3, 2005, 7:02:31 AM, David Whyte wrote:
> 
> > Ooooh Axel, great idea mate ;)
> 
> > I put my thumbs up for this idea :P
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:56:40 +0100, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:03:21AM -0800, Louie Ilievski wrote:
> >> > Hi everyone.  I have been an avid MythTV user for over 6 months now and
> >> > I love it.  I also have wanted to get involved in some development for
> >> > it.  My friend and I are seniors at the University of California,
> >> > Riverside, and we are trying to find a fun project we can work on for
> >> > our senior project.  However, this is supposed to be a "compilers"
> >> > class, but our professor is open to ideas for our project, as long as it
> >> > is somewhat compiler related.  More specifically, I imagine he is going
> >> > to want to see some scanning and parsing going on in our code at the
> >> > very minimum.  He definitely considers web pages compiler related, so it
> >> > seems he's pretty lenient, and doesn't want us to strictly re-write gcc  :-)
> >> >
> >> > We are looking for potential ideas we can propose to him for a project.
> >> > If we can get him to approve something related to MythTV, we would be
> >> > very excited.  Do any of you have any ideas for features we could
> >> > implement that would require some "compiler related" code?
> >> 
> >> There were some ideas/requests on getting all of the frontend/backend
> >> communication done over Myth protocols to avoid having any mysql
> >> baggage on embedded systems (request came from the mythtv on MVP
> >> folks). Would this also fall under your project's specs?
> >> 
> >> > I know this is being somewhat worked on, but I just thought of the
> >> > possibility of getting VBI working with MythTV for the PVR350 and 250
> >> > (or I guess ivtv in general).  I believe the VBI code is actually
> >> > working in the  ivtv driver, but just not in MythTV yet.  Am I correct?
> >> > I just remembered that an experimental patch just went in on March 1 so
> >> > this idea may be scrapped.
> >> >
> >> > Anyhow, any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated.  If we can pull
> >> > this one off then we would be able to code for something we're actually
> >> > interested in, while at the same time helping out the project.  And of
> >> > course, we could both possibly learn a thing or two from the plentiful
> >> > criticism shot out by Isaac and the other devs.  :-)
> >> 
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