[mythtv] Re: Hauppauge MediaMVP as Myth Frontend

[Kevin Kuphal]

Have you guys considered this?

http://www.adam-lilienthal.de/directvnc/

If Myth can write to the framebuffer and VNC can expose the framebuffer and
MediaMVP can consume VNC then...

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of James L. Reese
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:25 AM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv] Re: Hauppauge MediaMVP as Myth Frontend
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:43:48 +0000 (GMT)
> Ian Caulfield <imc25 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, James L. Reese wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone interested in helping tackle this project?
> > 
> > I'm interested - I should have a MediaMVP arriving next week. I'm 
> > going to try approaching from a different angle initially - 
> I'll see 
> > if I can get mythfrontend to run on the box itself in the memory 
> > available. If this proves infeasible, I can probably have a look at 
> > using the HCW firmware and running a remote frontend.
> > 
> 
> I've had John Gettler's native media player running on my 
> mvp...it works fine.  This might be a good place to start:  
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~gettler/mediamvp/  

The video stream will be easier to do than the menu system, I fear.  

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Jim Reese