Ross Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/7/05, Jason Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if I want to tweak the interface to the music and movie libraries, I > > need to do it in C++. > > You should check out the different options for the default layouts for > the MythVideo first.
That's certainly a good idea. My impression of MythTV comes from the online documentation and a couple quick peeks at the source code. If MythTV does everything I want, then I'm certainly happy to use it for everything. Right now, I'm just trying to decide whether the whole thing is worth the trouble. > > It seems to me that a user-interface based on php and javascript might > > be a lot easier to hack, and could work at least as well as MythTV. > > See mythweb OK. Here's a simple customization. Democracy Now is available each weekday after 12pm eastern. The video link is (currently) of the form http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/%Y/%b/video/dnB%Y%m%da.rm&proto=rtsp (at least in english language locales). I would like to have a menu item called "watch news" (or something) that plays the latest Democracy Now show. If mythweb supports javascript, I suppose that I could put this menu item in a .html file. Otherwise, I would have to generate this stupid little URL either by hacking mythTV, or setting up a local webserver with some sort of server-side scripting. And, IF I need to run my own webserver anyway, that just makes me wonder whether a UI based on a PHP and javascript wouldn't be preferable to one based on QT and C++. > > My question for the list is two-fold. First, is my impression of > > MythTV wrong? > > If you think that mythtv isn't customizable enough, then you're wrong. > If you think that full access to all of the source code doesn't give > you enough to hack with, then... I don't know what to tell you. What > exactly do you want to hack? I'm a little confused. Are you saying that every peice of software is exactly as easy to maintain and extend as every other peice of software? If I must hack something, I'd prefer to hack something with a small code base. Jason
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