[mythtv] IPTV project - 'officially' starting

[Jukka Tainio]

Hi,

I'm in, if there is a way to help with testing etc. We are currently  
piloting IPTV-services on our network and are in need for different  
test platforms, I currently use MythTV with two dvb-t cards. It would  
be nice to test "receiving" multicast streams too.

-Jukka
On Nov 11, 2005, at 1:16 AM, Paul Wayper wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I've seen a fair number of posts for the last couple of months  
> about increasing interest in IPTV - receiving e.g. mpeg2 streams as  
> UDP multicast. I haven't seen anyone put up their hand and say "I'm  
> organising this", though, and in the spirit of Open Source, I'm  
> putting up my hand and saying it.  If there's someone who's already  
> out there coding this, I haven't seen anything about it.
>
> I'm still looking for some documentation on how to coordinate such  
> a project, so if one of the regular developers can drop me a line  
> on their suggestions then I'd appreciate it.  I have an existing  
> subversion server set up on my gateway machine and I'll probably  
> set up something on that, but any suggestions as to how to  
> integrate this with the MythTV codebase and subversion server would  
> be great.  I'd hate to do a lot of work and then have it be hard to  
> integrate into the actual codebase.
>
> My plan is to make a subclass of each of the RecorderBase and  
> ChannelBase, specifically to handle the multicast stream.  I'll  
> have to work out where the channel data goes in the database - I  
> believe the correct thing to do is to put it in an existing table  
> rather than a new one.  I'm also assuming that at some stage I'll  
> have to set up a bit of GUI for the user to input channel data in  
> the backend setup and so forth.
>
> I'm not very qualified for doing this - I have limited C++  
> experience (I mostly code in C and Perl) and I don't have access to  
> IPTV channels from my ISP.  (I live in Canberra .au, and one of our  
> ISPs does do this, but not mine - yet).  But I am enthusiastic, I  
> can see that the interest is there and I think it really just needs  
> someone to start the work.  Once I've got as far as I can go, then  
> I'll ask people for help on specific things - my local linux group  
> may be interested in helping, for instance.
>
> Anyway, any advice you can give me at this early stage would be  
> very much appreciated.  And anyone that's already doing something  
> like this, then please let me know so we can work together!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
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