[mythtv-users] Free Internet TV?

[Brian Wood]

On May 4, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Nick Rout wrote:

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> On Thu, 4 May 2006 21:51:17 -0600
> Brian Wood wrote:
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>> On May 4, 2006, at 9:19 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
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>> The Linux build instructions seem a bit vague, but if I get some
>> spare time I might try and get that going. Looks like I'll need to
>> start with the boost libraries (I'm running Gentoo on that machine).
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> In that case you might want to look at this:
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131527
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>> Works like a charm on my G5 OS/X Mac though.
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> What video player does it use on mac? I thought I read it was  
> Quicktime.
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> its odd to me that they have chosen a different player on each  
> platform.
> I would have thought choosing VLC or mplayer would allow them to  
> keep a
> similar code base on all 3 OSes.
>

It's launching its own player that is called Democracy.app according  
to ps aux, it's not using the QT player but it may well be using  
portions thereof. They claim the player is completely open source  
though.

Now that you have me curious about that I'll have to look into it  
further, but tomorrow.

Thanks again.