On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:23:42 -0500, Matt Mossholder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about parsing out the VBI information from the video feed, and grabbing > out the "record this" type information that TiVo has convinced the networks > to broadcast. That way we get an easy way to record shows that have > interesting commercials. > > Oh, wait. We don't watch commercials anymore, do we? ;) > > > --Matt > > > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 03:03 -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? 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. > :-) Thanks, Louie > Ilievski _______________________________________________ mythtv-users > mailing > list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- > Matt Mossholder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > That's exactly the idea that I brought up in another thread. Brad responded and mentioned this Tivo feature, which I did not know existed. It would be really cool IMHO, as I still do watch some live TV. Garry
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