[mythtv] Clarification
Christoph Neumann
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:37:21 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 November 2002 08:57 am, Robert Dege wrote:
> > > It already does this. It automatically bumps programs around as much as
> > > it can to different tuner cards to resolve any conflicts, and then the
> > > rest of the UIs work as normally.
> >
> > Very nice. This is something that I plan on working on when the new
> > hardware arrives. In the meantime, lemme ask how you handled this:
> > MythTV is currently recording 2 shows on both tuner cards. I sit down &
> > select to watch TV. Would an error message appear saying that 2
> > recordings are currently running? Would it give me an option to cancel
> > 1 of the recordings, or do a live TV watch of one of the current
> > recordings?
>
> Not sure what it does, really. Not something I really worked on, but it
> should be getting addressed in the next feature I'm doing..
>
> > > I don't need any DVD capabilities right now, so someone else will have to
> > > do things.. Although, just adding a simple button to the menu that plays
> > > a DVD with another player if its in the drive is easy, and such mods have
> > > been posted to the list before. I'd want it to do some rudimentary disc
> > > type detection before I'd accept anything into the distribution, though.
> >
> > I could see using a program like Mplayer, or Ogle. I'll look into &
> > search the archives for any info post previously. What type of DVD
> > detection were you talking about? regional media, UDF, DivX media, etc?
>
> More like, all the players (that I've seen, at least) require a different
> command line option to play a VCD than they do to play a DVD. Ability to
> play a regular audio CD (call mythmusic and have it start playing the disc,
> or something), etc
You could check out "Freevo" since they have DVD dection code already.
Since it's GPL you could probably use it if it isn't too hacked together.
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
> Isaac
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