[mythtv] IPTV project - 'officially' starting

[Steven]

Paul Wayper wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I've seen a fair number of posts for the last couple of months about 
> increasing interest in IPTV - receiving e.g. mpeg2 streams as UDP 
> multicast. I haven't seen anyone put up their hand and say "I'm 
> organising this", though, and in the spirit of Open Source, I'm putting 
> up my hand and saying it.  If there's someone who's already out there 
> coding this, I haven't seen anything about it.
> 
> I'm still looking for some documentation on how to coordinate such a 
> project, so if one of the regular developers can drop me a line on their 
> suggestions then I'd appreciate it.  I have an existing subversion 
> server set up on my gateway machine and I'll probably set up something 
> on that, but any suggestions as to how to integrate this with the MythTV 
> codebase and subversion server would be great.  I'd hate to do a lot of 
> work and then have it be hard to integrate into the actual codebase.
> 
> My plan is to make a subclass of each of the RecorderBase and 
> ChannelBase, specifically to handle the multicast stream.  I'll have to 
> work out where the channel data goes in the database - I believe the 
> correct thing to do is to put it in an existing table rather than a new 
> one.  I'm also assuming that at some stage I'll have to set up a bit of 
> GUI for the user to input channel data in the backend setup and so forth.
> 
> I'm not very qualified for doing this - I have limited C++ experience (I 
> mostly code in C and Perl) and I don't have access to IPTV channels from 
> my ISP.  (I live in Canberra .au, and one of our ISPs does do this, but 
> not mine - yet).  But I am enthusiastic, I can see that the interest is 
> there and I think it really just needs someone to start the work.  Once 
> I've got as far as I can go, then I'll ask people for help on specific 
> things - my local linux group may be interested in helping, for instance.
> 
> Anyway, any advice you can give me at this early stage would be very 
> much appreciated.  And anyone that's already doing something like this, 
> then please let me know so we can work together!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
> __________

Have you looked at what the dbox recorder does in mythtv? I think this 
is basicly recording an ip broadcast from the dbox on your myth box (all 
you hae to configure is the port to listen on). This should at least 
give you some ideas on the recording bit.

Steven

Steven