[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

[Andrei Tanas]

> I don't know, a lot of people would be thrilled to be able to use the
> extra horsepower in their Windows machines to run jobs from the
> JobQueue. :)  Commercial flagging should work out of the box I would
> think since it can stream the file remotely, mythtranscode will
> probably have some issues since it needs direct read/write access to
> the recording directory and files.

Speaking of which: does somebody want to take a look at how Myth handles
file paths? If under Linux a network share can be mounted so it's accessible
using the same path (like /home/mythtv/videos), it's not possible to do so
with Windows. This kind of messes things up, since MythVideo shares the same
configurations between all machines in one system.
Also, ':' is being treated as a separator, which makes it impossible to use
drive letters (which, coincidentally, is needed to use network shares).