The general design (especially the background) you saw on the canvas page was borrowed from ReplayTV. You can see their shots at http://www.pvrcompare.com/rp50images.html . I just borrowed that general appearance because I thought it was cool. :)
Other shots on my site quite blatently rip off Media Center because I actually think it's an extremely good and attractive interface.
Thanks for the link and pointer. I have to admit that commercial company make nice UIs. Nevertherless, I probably will be following your trails :)
If mplayer gets ahead of the file position the recorder is at, yes, it will be playing old content. So you make sure that never happens. With my timeshift code, if that happens, mplayer will wait until the recorder passes it. We keep a safe margin (2 seconds) to make sure that never happens. (So the waiting is a worst-case scenario to ensure correctness.)
I am currently using a 3-file buffer.
The benefit of using 3-file buffer allows my program to flush to the end of the buffer all the time in livetv mode. I still end up with a 1 second delay in changing channels. Maybe that is the overhead of the internal decoder buffer. I am actually thinking of switching into YUV passthru mode on live tv and switch back into decoder mode on pause and rev. However that will incur a glitch on switching. Is there a better way (e.g. calling firmware directly) to achieve smoother transition, anyone here?
I also have a PVR350 but don't use the decoder yet since the majority of my viewing is mpeg4. YUV decoding is making good progress quite recently, though. I'm hopeful this will usable this summer.
Yeah, I currently transcode all my mpeg4 collection into mpeg2. As long as my family has the patience to wait overnight for the transcoding, it works for me now.
I have a question though if any one here know the answer: why I can't dump NTSC dvd stream directly to the decoder? Is it because the stream actually uses 24fps? Is there any 3:2 pulldown option and how can I use them? Thanks.
Cheers, -- Hui Zhou
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