[mythtv] Win32 backend ideas? (Was: Win32-Packager fails to compile QT4)

[Jonathan Martens]

Thanks for the heads-up. I do not have direct show experience, but will 
certainly look into the thread you provided.

Jonathan

On 27-1-2009 13:08, buzz wrote:
> Jon,
> the mythbackend traditionally relies *nearly 100% on the V4L2 ( video
> for Linux) layer . Clearly V4L needs 'L'inux.
>
> There was some discussion on the -dev list back in may last year, where
> I was trying to get feedback on the "best way" to approach the problem. ..
> the discussion started with this post :
> http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/mythtv-dev@mythtv.org/msg07991.html
>
> I said (*), because there is support for firewire devices, and
> network-based devices like HDHomeRun which don't use V4L/2 whch could
> theoretically become supported under windows fairly easily ...but these
> have never been tried at this time.
>
> The linux developers who are "in the know" mostly recommended that the
> HDHomeRun API is the recommended place to start in this case, for anyone
> that wants to try, and the original win32 developer (Andre Tanas) said
> that " the difficulty level is not too high and ... having some
> background with DirectShow, I think it's not going to be too hard to
> implement windows mpeg recorder. Whether I'm going to have time to do it
> before the next release is another question though."
>
> So that's where it stands, presently. If you have any DirectShow
> background, you might like to go that route, otherwise people recommend
> getting a 'HDHomeRun' and giving that a shot.
>
> Perhaps Andre is listening, and has more time now for a
> proof-of-concept? :-)
>
> Buzz
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Jonathan Martens <jonathan at snetram.nl
> <mailto:jonathan at snetram.nl>> wrote:
>
>     On 27-1-2009 5:49, Nigel Pearson wrote:
>
>         The Windows (and Mac OS X) backend do not support
>         local TV cards, so you will still need a Linux
>         backend to connect to.
>
>
>     Alright, I was not aware of that. Can you elaborate on why this does
>     not work? Is this due to driver differences between Linux and
>     Windows or something completely different?
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>     Jonathan
>
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