If i could at least get a hint about what these programs do, i might be
able to test them out and document them - or is this a case of "go read
the source, its documented there"?
I am currently planning to write a small gui for ivtv using GTK and Java
(gcj) or python - probably Java (as i don't know python, and i don't
want to do it in C(++)) - a small and simple controll app that should be
able to act as a frontend to ivtv-tune and ivtvctrl, including loading
settings from disk etc, searching from channels (using ivtv's built-in
signal detect), lanch mplayer and record.
Or is that already done (ptune-ui doesn't count - its ugly,
dysfunctional, require a ton of non-standard deps, and generally leaves
a lot to be desired)
I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure ivtv is really just a driver for a TV tuner. The apps that it comes with are for configuration or testing, not really for operation. The real use for ivtv is the kernel modules.
I don't know about any small and simple control apps for settings, recording, mplayer, etc, but MythTV is a large and complex app that does that. There are probably a few other similar programs that talk to the driver to operate the card rather than using the utilities. (freevo?, probably a few others as well).
If you are interested in making a control app gui, I would suggest having it interface the driver rather than just running the command line applications. I may be way off base on this, since I'm not an ivtv developer, but it seems like that's the way to go.
- Jeff
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