[mythtv-users] Small, low cost MythTV clients...
stuart
stuart at xnet.com
Fri May 11 21:28:29 UTC 2007
Todd Ferris wrote:
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> On 5/9/07, *Todd Ferris* <tferris at gmail.com <mailto:tferris at gmail.com>>
> wrote
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> I may not have a complete understanding of the Syabas middleware,
> but from looking at the Wizd ( http://wizd.sourceforge.net/) project
> I think this project could be a potential huge win for mythtv.
>
> Wizd is an open-source project that provides a replacement media
> server for Syabas based media players ( e.g. I-O Data LinkPlayer,
> Buffalo LinkTheater, etc.) It appears they have reverse engineered
> the control protocol for these systems and can now display their own
> menus and provide custom behavior (within the limits of the players
> firmware)
>
> Searching the forums, someone already has created a commercial skip
> patch that sends mythtv commercial break markers as chapters to the
> player ( http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4049664
> <http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4049664>)
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> It seems that if we got an active developer group together to create
> a mythtvfrontend branch for Wizd we would suddenly have a light
> mythfrontend (but heavier than upnp) available for a large selection
> of mediaplayers. This could be very similar to the Myth python
> script for XBMC( http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv/).
> While it is not the full frontend, it does have extensive features.(
> http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=128346)
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> I would happy to join in on the development, but don't have the
> skills to tackle this alone (my C is very rusty, and I was never
> known for elegant design)
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> Any takers?
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> Todd
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> After doing a little more research I think the SwissCenter project
> (http://www.swisscenter.co.uk/) might be even an even better platform
> for creating a mediaplayer based mythtvfrontend. The whole thing is
> implemented in PHP and is already backed by a mysql db. I could see
> just branching this off and just creating a full mythtv focused project.
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> Anyone have experience with SwissCenter? (I might just have to buy one
> of these mediaplayers to mess around with!)
>
> Todd
>
Sorry for the slow 4 day turn around. I just started considering mythtv
development and re-did some of my myth e-mail filters.
Time (and trying to do many thing (it's all good)) is eating at me as
well. I still haven't been able to cobbled together a SVN version of
mythtv.
So, my hopes that UPnP Remote was in wide spread use are not true? That
is, the protocol WizD implements is just a special Sigma Designs /
Syabas protocol.
It looks like SwissCenter is another Sigma Design specific server, just
like WizD. I have only tried WizD so I can't compare. If by PHP you
mean Python - well, I'm not much of a Python developer.
In general, you are interested in adding support (programming) to the
MythTV back end to support Sigma Design based "media extenders" or "thin
clients", do I have that right? Just checking.
...thanks
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