On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:03:21AM -0800, Louie Ilievski wrote: > Hi everyone. I have been an avid MythTV user for over 6 months now and > I love it. I also have wanted to get involved in some development for > it. My friend and I are seniors at the University of California, > Riverside, and we are trying to find a fun project we can work on for > our senior project. However, this is supposed to be a "compilers" > class, but our professor is open to ideas for our project, as long as it > is somewhat compiler related. More specifically, I imagine he is going > to want to see some scanning and parsing going on in our code at the > very minimum. He definitely considers web pages compiler related, so it > seems he's pretty lenient, and doesn't want us to strictly re-write gcc :-) > > We are looking for potential ideas we can propose to him for a project. > If we can get him to approve something related to MythTV, we would be > very excited. Do any of you have any ideas for features we could > implement that would require some "compiler related" code?
There were some ideas/requests on getting all of the frontend/backend communication done over Myth protocols to avoid having any mysql baggage on embedded systems (request came from the mythtv on MVP folks). Would this also fall under your project's specs? > I know this is being somewhat worked on, but I just thought of the > possibility of getting VBI working with MythTV for the PVR350 and 250 > (or I guess ivtv in general). I believe the VBI code is actually > working in the ivtv driver, but just not in MythTV yet. Am I correct? > I just remembered that an experimental patch just went in on March 1 so > this idea may be scrapped. > > Anyhow, any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated. If we can pull > this one off then we would be able to code for something we're actually > interested in, while at the same time helping out the project. And of > course, we could both possibly learn a thing or two from the plentiful > criticism shot out by Isaac and the other devs. :-) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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