[Kwintv] Small kwintv3 patch

[George Staikos]

On October 16, 2002 09:24, Michael Kedl wrote:

> > > EE) in the channel ring, it goes something like
> > > 3,2,1,svideo,comp,125,124,... when you are channeling down (or up)
> >
> >    I don't think this can be cleanly implemented.
>
> Well the reason(s) to think about this weren't all mentioned:
> 1) I hope to extend this to include:
> 	- svideo/aux directly (as mentioned)

     This is going to be very difficult to do.

> 	- IR blasting to an external satelite/cable box and "watching" on
> channel 3/4 or aux/svideo

   This I *really* like and I was thinking about doing something similar too.

> 	- "tuning" udp mutlicast and unicast

    This is another great idea.  People could really make plugins to do this.

> 2) of course I hate switching programs or having to go thru menus or
> config dialogs just to get to svideo/aux as well

    Yes but there isn't much choice.  It makes it very difficult to make 
plugins if you require the plugin to know how to change sources.  With v4l it 
is easy, but the plugin that does Xv overlay doesn't know how to determine 
this.  That's why the user has to select from the device selection dialog.  
Otherwise, we would not have that dropdown in the device selection dialog at 
all.

> I have implemented before and would like to see something like this for
> the channel definitions:
> chanel	the channel "#" we access it by
> name	the friendly name to show to the user
> url	(yes Universal Resource Locater describes it pretty well) describes
> how to access the media
>
> URL:
> transport
> location/machine name
> file
> variables

  I think this can be done better inside the plugin itself quite honestly.  
That way the other plugins don't see or deal with this extra baggage.  We 
don't want to go too far beyond the scope of this application too.  Arts 
provides video playback and dvd playback already.  I would rather focus on TV 
tuning, and perhaps network "tuning" as well (as a plugin).

> Maybe this is more than you guys want to worry about for now.
> But I'm heading down the path of the "multimedia center".  I have one
> for winblows, and I want one for Linux.  And I happen to like/use KDE.

   We could definitely work on an app that works in tandem with arts to 
provide this.  it could launch qtvision and/or embed the qtvision part as 
needed, and use noatun for dvd/video playback.  More componentised....

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George Staikos