Ah, the joys of a bank holiday monday, except for the thunder and
lightning its quite a day.
I too play with C, however hacking on someone elses code can be a bit
of a nightmare, it all depends on what you want doing. I'll give
everything a try so lets hear what needs to be done.
Below are some things I think we should start discussing;
a, Timeshifting, do we know what is required to achieve this?
b, Picture in Picture
c, Video thumbnailer/miniview
d, 32bit RGBA OSD overlay
These are the things that lets freevo down.
On the subject of timeshifting, I think this has to be achieved by
having a time shift server, like the recording server only that we
would need to record constantly. I think, and correct me if I'm
wrong, that the best method of achieving this is to have an
application running which is constantly recording, then if you switch
to TV you just click in to the stream.
So for instance I boot freevo at 6pm, I watch a movie and by 8pm I
want to catch a show on TV, the timeshift server has been running
since 6pm the time i started freevo when I click on to the TV a
player app starts up and fast forwards 2hrs to the current time, so
the timeshift server would have to keep track of when the recorder
app started, and as the stream truncates the beginning (we couldn't
have it fill the disk) the timeshift server keeps track of this in
relation to the current point in the stream. Now because my show
started five minutes ago because I insist on a cup of tea I just hit
the rewind key and start from the beginning of the show.
As far as picture in picture and miniview are concerned, I think we'd
need a borderless window manager for that. Then we could start up
miniview/pip as its own window on top of whatever is currently going
on, by switching the child app too and from full screen/maximized it
should be relatively easy to handle the miniview scenario, picture in
picture may be different.
Anyway, metacity handles many video windows on top of each other
playing (I did this earlier) and I imagine it doesn't take much CPU
time (by today's standards) to get fairly fluid playback on multiple
streams.
How about this for an idea then,
Freevo becomes window managed all the child apps are also window
managed, then at least with a miniview we can compete with M$ and
others, I don't imagine it would be too difficult to get this going.
It may also be an idea to create a freevo session manager simplifying
the transition. You see personally there are many things I do when I
start X for freevo, this includes correcting the screen alignment,
turning off suspend on my TV, make sure LIRC is up and running, make
sure any network shares are connected etc... Now this would be much
easier with a session manager, the session manager would make sure
that everything specified in the config file (freevo boot) was
started correctly and all was well with the world, start up the
window manager then freevo-timshift, freevo-recording freevo-encoding
etc...
Now for a window manager here's a possibility http://
evilwm.sourceforge.net/
and for time shifting fftv may be worth a look here http://
fftv.sourceforge.net/
Regards,
Karl
On 30 May 2005, at 14:36, Chad Robinson wrote:
Dirk Meyer wrote:
Wealso need people doing some hacks in xine/mplayer. In case you know
C this could be a part.
What kind of hacks?
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