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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    KWinTV
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-14 20:14:16
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Hello Everyone!

   This is a note to inform you that I have received no feedback from the 
KWinTV author and he doesn't seem to have done any work on it since November, 
so I am starting to maintain it myself in KDE CVS.  It's in rather rough 
shape right now, but it does work and I have fixed many bugs already.  I have 
also applied a patch by Stefan Hellwig which makes the channel scanner work 
and implements a brand new channel file format.

   Things are stable enough for me right now, but I can find ways to crash it 
still, and some things just aren't being done in a nice way.  Ideally it 
could use a complete rewrite since it was originally based on KDE 1.x but I 
just don't have time for that.  So for now, I'm just going to plug away at my 
TODO list which I have added to the app in CVS.  You can find it under 
kdenonbeta/kwintv.  This is not in the main build because it doesn't use the 
KDE build system yet.  I'm not a pro at that, so it will take a while to 
merge it.  For now I will continue to make releases fairly frequently at 
http://www.staikos.on.ca/~staikos/kwintv/.

   I would really appreciate any help that anyone could lend.  I know that 
many of you use this application and it would be nice to get it back in 
shape.  I'm considering dropping all KDE 1.x support from it now, and I'm 
particularily interested in getting the build system switched over to the KDE 
style.  Number one on my TODO list though, is to fix the colour depth/bpp 
code.  Right now it will not work on my machine at a depth of 24.  Xawtv does 
so I am looking at how it manages.  Number two on my TODO list is to get 
image scaling in place instead of using video mode changes to simulate 
fullscreen.  Scaling looks _so_ much nicer on my machine anyways.

   So please, if you use this app and you know anything about KDE build 
system, icons, docs, or coding.... please lend a hand.   Even good bug 
reports will be very useful.

Thanks!

-- 

George Staikos

 
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