From kde-devel  Thu Aug 16 18:44:54 2001
From: Tony =?iso-8859-1?q?Bk=F6rkenius?= <tony.bjorkenius () linux ! nu>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:44:54 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KWinTV
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99802279919879

Is there a reason that kwintv is linked against qt-mt? I had to remove the 
refernce to it in the Makefile otherwise it segfaulted directly. I havn't had 
any problem with the version linked without qt-mt.

// Tony


On Tuesday 14 August 2001 22:14, 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.
>
>    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!
 
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