[mythtv] Extending ProgramInfo::ToMap to get Ch.Freq+TunerID+SourceName into LiveTV OSD -- just need hints

[David Kubicek]

  I love MythTV (always used trunk, though recently reverted to 
0.23-fixes, because a lot of stuff in trunk seems broken for now) and 
use it as a DVB-S PVR. Thing is I'm still missing some features when 
compared to my previous (low-tech) sat. boxes. I tried VDR in the 
beginning, but that is /too/ old-school for me. :)

So I've decided to write it myself, but reading MythTV code, there is 
little documentation and only few comments. It is apparently written 
quite well, I really like the style, but it's a little bit hostile 
towards new people. Having such a large project without any class design 
/ integration descriptions and detailed comments is a shame. That's why 
I'm here, hoping to get some hints.

I'd like to add the ability to display (e.g. via "INFO" binding) 
transponder info and "input name" when watching LiveTV. Eventually also 
DVB provider names per channel, but that would require scanner update 
and DB extension and some more. So to begin with, just this. I need this 
feature because with multi-tuner DVB-S, the user has to know about 
inputs and card switching (LiveTV doesn't manage it automatically).

I could find that OSD gets data from the InfoMap generated by 
ProgramInfo::ToMap. I even noticed the ProgramInfo already has 
sourceid/inputid/cardid members! Great, I translated them into names and 
put into the map, but then I realized that for LiveTV, these variables 
were all zero. :)

I searched how exactly ProgramInfo is used, init'd, updated, but that's 
when I got lost. Too much code without descriptions. I'm hoping somebody 
here will be so kind and give me hints on how this class is used and 
where/when can I set these ID's to have them available for LiveTV.

Please, do let me know. Thank you.

-- 
David Kubicek