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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KWinTV
From:       Moritz Moeller-Herrmann <mmh () gmx ! net>
Date:       2001-08-14 21:09:44
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:14:16PM -0400, George Staikos wrote:

>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.

Actually xawtv does both, it switches to the bets resolution AND uses V4L to
scale the picture.
Great to see someone create an alternative to xawtv, which is technically nice,
but sucks GUI-wise. Maybe you could ask the author of xawtv to do a port/merge
to KDE ? Sounds like a better idea than only fixing kwintv.

Unfortunately I gave my TV card away yesterday, because TV is  so lame and I
just bought a DVD player.



-- 
Moritz Moeller-Herrmann ICQ #3585990
(wiss. Mitarbeiter, IMGB, Mannheim)
 
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