[mythtv-users] MythTv Player 0.2 for Windows

[Mikkel Stensgaard]

Paul Harvey wrote:
> On 11/18/06, Marko Nurmenniemi <marko.nurmenniemi at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>   
>> mythtv at shelfspace.com wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Mikkel Bystrup Stensgaard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi fellow MythTv users.
>>>>
>>>> After a lot of feedback from helpful users and bug fixing, "MythTv Player"
>>>> seems to be rather stable and I just upload the first 0.2 "stable" release to
>>>> the webpage.
>>>> http://www.sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/
>>>>
>>>>         
>> I just downloaded the 0.3.1 and have been testing it with XP SP2.
>> Works like a charm.
>>
>> Windows is on a laptop and connected with a 11Mbps WLAN.
>> Network utilization is at 40% without excess buffering, besides the
>> starting naturally.
>>
>> One minor issue was obvious and maybe this needs to be in the forums also.
>> Actually should be now...
>> There is a problem with some characters (atleast äÄöÖ).
>>
>> -M
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>
> I agree, looks like a good start... I found one enhancement that would
> be nice, and one thing I would consider a problem.
>
> It would be nice to add deinterlace as an option, really noticeable
> watching sporting events...
>
> And I like to do other things while watching recordings, so having the
> sound stop when MythTV Player loses focus is in my opinion a bug.
>
>   
All three issues are on my TODO list.
- At the moment utf8 characters are not supported. As I am Danish, I 
have the same problem as we have 3 non-english letters. It is not top 
priority as it is not a show stopper :)
- That sound stops when windows is not focused is a "feature" of the SDL 
library that I use for sound. I am pretty sure I can fix it by some 
patching. I will look into this at some point not to far in the future.
- De-interlazing would be nice!, but it requires a lot of work. I want 
to have the basic functionallity up running first. Such as live-tv. My 
plan is to integrate filters from the DSCaler project if their License 
allow it, but it is a bit into the future.

\Mikkel