[mythtv-users] Slighlty OT a Basic mythfrontend for realtek players such Asus O'Play, Patriot Box Office, and Seagate FAT+

Tom Lichti redpepperracing at gmail.com
Mon May 9 14:52:12 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:27 AM, MacLaren, James M <maclaren at tulane.edu> wrote:
> This is very much a work in progress, but building off the ketlaer project
> on sourceforge whoch seems to have gone quiet of late, I have been able to
> get an open source player (mms) running on the Asus O'Play, Patriot Box
> Office, and Seagate FAT+.  My modest additions, allow it to display mythtv
> recordings (with human form titles!)  and their thumbnails, as well as show
> some program information, and allow playback.  There is still a lot left to
> do, including an EPG and scheduling recordings.  This should all be possible
> and not too hard – it’s just a matter of free time.  Playback with
> commercial skipping I believe should also be possible.  I have not been able
> yet to get an osd or true ff/rew during playback yet.  The original work by
> the ketlaer project (google it and sourceforge) is quite clever and the
> authors have figured out based upon the publically available asus libraries
> how to do playback etc in the program mms.  mms is a very modular code and
> uses plugins for i/o and video display, so that made porting easier.   I am
> not sure if the mythfrontend can be ported as easily but I bet it would be
> possible with effort.  Anyway if anyone is interested I posted the code and
> instructions on how to get it working here:
>
> http://www.patriotmemory.com/forums/showthread.php?6617-mms-player-mythfrontend-for-the-pbo-asus-oplay-fat-a-3rd-party-player
>
> It’s more of a cool thing to try (at least in my opinion) than the best
> frontend.  I am happy to offer help and take help to!

If you can get commercial skipping to work, you'd have a winner!

Tom


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