[mythtv-users] Re: EFF calls for developers for MythTV

[steve at nexusuk.org]

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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Francois Gouget wrote:

> There's a different point of vue that says that MythVideo is a part of
> MythTV and thus should behave the same and that which application
> MythVideo uses to do the task is an implementation detail the user
> should not have to worry about.
> 
> So while using MPlayer or Xine to play videos simplifies things from a
> development point of view, it can hurt ease of use. Corporate types
> would say it's a tradeoff between time-to-market and integration<g>.

Once the keys/remote control has been configured for both Myth and Xine, 
there are no real integration problems (I use xine for both mythvideo and 
mythdvd and it integrates almost seamlessly now it's all set up).  The bit 
where it doesn't integrate is the actual key/remote set up, whcih involves 
hacking a separate config - the solution would probably be to write a 
script that sucks the key configuration using in MythTV out of the SQL 
database and use it to generate a Xine config file.  It shouldn't be too 
hard to do this since most of the functions are the same between Myth and 
Xine (i.e. play, skip back, skip forward, navigation arrows, etc).

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