[mythtv] New UI control

[Ahmed Toulan]

Me and my team tried to use flash in MythTV. We decided that we can
run the flash player in full screen above mythtv and send whatever
commands that we do to mythfrontend end telnet interface ( like key up
...etc) . We found out that the opensource implementation libswfdec
lacked socket communications. So we decided to try the adobe flash
player for linux. I tried an example called telnet sockets for flash.
It worked fine from a windows machine (it connected to mythtv and I
was able to send commands), but when I ran this example from the linux
box it was able to connect but no commands were sent to the sever.

The point is that flash isn't fully supported under linux, and I had a
hard time trying to find answers.

And I totally agree with Stuart, that flash and Clutter won't be
easily theamable.

Best Regards,
Ahmed Toulan.

On Dec 12, 2007 8:56 PM, Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 December 2007 17:52:44 Andrei Tanas wrote:
> > > Yes it can but where I work, they tried to create an interface for a
> > > device based on it and they had a lot of problems like the flash plugin
> > > consuming lots of CPU (something related to timers IIRC), difficult to
> > > receive feedback from the running processes, etc
> > >
> > > > http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/
> > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
> > >
> > > The gnash plugin worked much better but lacked a few necessary things
> > > (I
> > > can't tell which ones exactly as I wasn't involved). In the end they
> > > choose to use clutter. http://www.clutter-project.org/
> >
> > Sure it doesn't have to be Flash (although, there's probably a lot more
> > designers who know it than everything else combined), it can be Clutter or
> > MS Silverlight for all I know, I just think that it's not a very good idea
> > to implement "UI control" from scratch when these things already exist.
>
> MythUI has mostly been written, it's very good at what it does and when
> mythfrontend is ported over to use it, you'll start to see some very cool
> themes/UIs as a result.
>
> Neither Flash nor Clutter would be easily themable, they rely on
> pre-determined animations and effects. MythUI allows the themer to devise
> their own graphics, layouts, animations and effects in simple XML. MythUI is
> also easily extended, the same can't be said for the other two.
> --
> Stuart Morgan
>
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