[mythtv] DVB/DAB/FM Radio Plugin

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:15 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> In message <200510031457.29620.stuart at tase.co.uk>
>         Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon 3 October 2005 14:01, Tom Hughes wrote:
> >> Why does everybody always want to do this in a plugin?
> >
> > I'd eventually want to see this as a core function but I very much
> > doubt that Issac would let any new, unproven, coders loose on the
> > main code.
As long as the changes are clear and concise it is just a
matter of reading the code for problems. The change must
be made in smallish patches though. I can review changes
in the players, but any changes in NVR Issac would have
to review, etc.

> But Issac has said many times that it can't be a plugin so I doubt
> he would accept any solution that was.
Yep, he's been very clear on this, and I agree with him.
It should be part of the regular application, the reasons
have all been gone through before so I'll just suggest
searching the archives.

> Well DVB support at least doesn't actually need that much work I don't
> think - ask Martin Ebourne as he's been working on it. It's mostly a
> question of persuading the recorder and the frontend not to worry if
> there is no video stream and then changing the channel scanner so it
> doesn't discard audio only channels.
I can do the recorder side for DVB if someone makes
VideoOutput work with non-video MPEG's.

> I have no idea about DAB or FM cards - that will be a question of
> creating a new recorder class for the new card type I guess. It is
> mostly new code rather than changes to existing code so the risk of
> breaking existing things is limited.
This wouldn't be too hard either, it is just a few changes
in NVR. But here the problem is the lack of listings data.

-- Daniel