[mythtv] Introduction LONG (was Re: Interesting Comparison)

[Martin Møller]

Good point.

That would fit right in with how MythTV works already. I suppose all you need 
is a new form of virtual capture card to do this.

It seems like the design is almost done, then ;)

/Martin.

Søndag 05 marts 2006 12:59 skrev Lasse Nisted:
> Hmm.
> Why not populate the program guide with data about playing times, etc.
> Then when changing channels it should just query the system clock and
> use that to query the guide for which program to play and then goto a
> specific
> position in that program. Thus not having to maintain any counters while
> not watching.
> Only thing is to update the program guide with "random" titles. This could
> be done when
> updating the real channels.
>
> - Lasse
>
> On 3/5/06, Martin Møller <martin at martinm-76.dk> wrote:
> > Just a thought about a possible implementation that shouldn't load the
> > machine
> > too much. I can't really help with implementing it though :-/
> >
> > For each channel you have a set to videos. That much is established.
> > You want it to work pretty much like LiveTV. Okay.
> > Given that, a short delay on 'changing channels' should be acceptible.
> >
> > This is what I though when I first read the start of the thread:
> >
> > When you have set up the channels and possibly randomized the set of
> > movies to
> > play in each one, why not simply query the 'active' movie in each
> > 'channel'
> > for it's length and then just count upwards until the file is done, not
> > actually playing that file unless someone has 'tuned' to the channel?
> >
> > You could then look at the next movie in the queue maybe 30 seconds
> > before the
> > current one ends and have the starting point in that movie ready when the
> > one
> > before finishes. That way, if no one is watching, all you would have
> > running
> > extra would be, say, 4-10 counters in some semi-backend process. That
> > shouldn't load the machine much and all movies should be easy to query
> > for their actual lengths.
> >
> > Of course it gets a bit tricky it you should also be able to go back to
> > the
> > beginning of a movie currently playing, but it would probably be easier
> > to call up it's information and have some option to launch it from the
> > beginning
> > which you when pretty much simply run mythtv on that movie and exit the
> > channel.
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> > /Martin.
> >
> > Søndag 05 marts 2006 10:26 skrev Anthony Benjamin:
> > > First off, sorry that this reply is probably not going to thread
> >
> > correctly,
> >
> > > but I usually read the lists out of the archives, and decided to join,
> >
> > in
> >
> > > part, so I could reply to this thread.
> > >
> > > I think that the 'custom channel' idea is very, very good. I find that
> > > I share much of the same viewing habits as the OP, and I would love if
> > > a channel that was in the EPG was just randomly selected videos out of
> > > my collection. I started looking at the MythTV codebase to see how
> >
> > something
> >
> > > like this could be done. I think what you would want to do is create a
> >
> > new
> >
> > > recording source and establish channels on that new recording source.
> >
> > The
> >
> > > channels themselves could have definitions like, all mythvideos that
> > > fit into *simpsons*. This would allow for very fine grained control
> > > over
> >
> > what
> >
> > > was shown on the channel. Then maybe modify mythfilldatabase so that
> >
> > when
> >
> > > the EPG is populated with your regular broadcast information, movies
> > > fitting the guidelines for the channels you established were also
> > > populated... looking at the codebase, I quickly became lost on where I
> > > would have to add some of this functionality.
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate hearing more thoughts on how we could accomplish this
> > > feature... or towards where in the code I should look. Thanks :-)
> >
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