[mythtv] Discussion: make playback available in all UI screens

[Scott White]

Heh,

Just sent a mail saying almost exactly this, just in a different way. 
Then read yours.  Lot of work, fraught with difficulties, but cool none
the less. 

Scott

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 20:11, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> I thought I'd start a thread to discuss ways in which the following 
> might be implemented: when any media playback is initiated (using a 
> Myth internally-supported playback mechanism; i.e., not mplayer), the 
> playback process will be a daemon, and the output should be available 
> no matter where in the UI you are.
> 
> Now, before everybody jumps on me, I do know about the new mfd stuff 
> Thor's been working on, and that's a step in the right direction.  
> However, I'm thinking more along the lines of LiveTV or 
> WatchingRecording... what if the video playback in Myth was also part 
> of mfd (or some other daemon process)?  Then the playback could 
> continue even if you switch to a different menu.  Kind of like the EPG 
> is now in LiveTV.  Any theme that wanted to could contain a "black 
> hole" UI element that would contain any currently-playing video.  If 
> there was no video currently playing, then the "black hole" would not 
> be displayed.  A jump point or global keybinding could take us back to 
> full-screen mode.  For any screen that did not have a black hole, the 
> playback would continue, but the video would be redirected to a null 
> device, or behind the window, or whatever.  You'd still get audio.
> 
> Basically, the idea is that once a media playback event is initiated in 
> Myth, it should only be stopped by:
> 
> - user explicit action to stop it
> - reached end of playback
> - Myth requires the resource (i.e., LiveTV & Myth needs tuner for 
> scheduled recording)
> 
> This seems relatively easy for audio media w/ the new mfd client module; 
> it can obviously keep the audio output device open regardless of what 
> you're doing in the UI; it's just the video/black hole stuff that 
> requires thought.
> 
> So, anybody else have thoughts on this?
> 
> -JAC
> 
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