[mythtv-users] MythMusic & mythtvosd

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 04:54:28 UTC 2005


> I've toying around with the idea of using mythtvosd to display
> artist/album/track while music is playing back.  It doesn't seem too
> hard... a slight modification to osd.xml with an xml template.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone's already done this?
> 
> I'm not sure how to communicate with MythMusic.  I think my best bet
> would be to modify MythMusic itself to make calls to mythtvosd.

Not sure if this will work. Mythtvosd only displays when you're
watching Live TV or a recording. And if you're doing that, then you
can't be running MythMusic as well, so I don't think it will work.

Regards,
Phill


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