On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 01:14 +0200, Michał Sawicz wrote:
> One way to have recordings from MythTV available in Moovida is to use
> its built-in UPnP MediaServer and Moovida's support for UPnP. There are
> some quirks due to MythTV failing to properly implement the UPnP
> standard.

Yeah that is definitely the easiest way, unfortunately they don't
interact over UPnP currently.

> The general consensus between Moovida developers is that we should try
> and work with the Gnome DVB Daemon [1] which, again, is accessible via
> UPnP through Coherence.

Sounds like a reasonable idea.

> What's more, there's currently no proper design for EPG data to be
> presented to the user and that's one of the most important things to
> think of. IMO the place to start is to properly discuss this and have a
> good design. I know having something working is nice but we'll probably
> end up with something that needs to be rewritten anyway because we
> didn't give it enough thought in the first place.

This sounds like a good plan.

If a design/framework of how EPG should be presented in Moovida was
created and some sort of widget then theoretically it would be easy
enough to populate that from whatever source a developer chooses. Be
that DVBDaemon, a MythTV backend, XMLTV directly, etc.

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