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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: LinTV - A replacement for kdetv
From:       Dirk <dirkrathlev () gmx ! de>
Date:       2009-01-26 20:03:50
Message-ID: 497E1726.7080306 () gmx ! de
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Hi,

great to hear that there's a potential replacement for kdetv.

Why don't you upload the code to playground so that more people can test it?

Regards,
Dirk

Jesse Zamora schrieb:
> Hello Everyone,
>
>     Lately I've been working on creating LinTV, a TV viewing and
> recording application for KDE4. It uses mplayer and mencoder as the
> backends for viewing & recording, respectively. I was noticing in the
> application porting status page on techbase that the status of a KDE4
> version of kdetv was unknown. So, I'd like to suggest LinTV as a drop-in
> replacement for it. I've attached a screenshot showing just a few of the
> features LinTV has at the moment, even though some features don't fully
> work as expected sometimes. 
>
>     I'd eventually like to see LinTV go into extragear for KDE4 if
> possible. The goal I have in mind for LinTV is not to replace MythTV or
> even compete with it; the goal is to have a downright simple tool for
> viewing and recording TV (and scheduling recording as well, I'm working
> on a scheduler right now) for KDE4.
>
>     If anyone would like to help with LinTV, please contact me at
> xtremek2009@gmail.com . I've only been able to test it with a Hauppage
> WinTV PVR-150 and a Proteus Pro 2309 (with a saa7134 device), and it
> seems to work quite ok. I'll need people with other tuners to test LinTV
> as well and see what needs to be done to get it with their tuner. I will
> not post the code on kde-apps.org until it is alpha quality; if you
> would like the code, I could just email it to you so you can test your
> tuner with it. I had to modify mplayer in order to get proper support
> for some features (such as -slave mode and screenshots); I can send you
> that code as well so you can get LinTV working. 
>     
> Thanks Everyone,
> Jesse L. Zamora aka. Xtreme Kommander
>
> P.S. And yes, I have a long todo featurelist for the Kickoff menu that I
> am going to implement soon, so don't think I just bailed out of KDE4
> Plasma development! :-)
>   
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