2006-03-30, 12:13 AM
bungle Wrote:Thanks - I hate using installer programs when a simple zip will do.My main motivation was to figure out the GUI side of the MVP client so that I could write an HME application for my Tivo that would allow me to use GBPVR through the Tivo interface on my TV. Then I got interested in the project and decided to try and figure out the media side, too. I had also read on this board that a lot of people were looking for something like this.
On another note, what advantage do you see this project having over using another instance of GB-PVR, as described here: http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tips/PCClient ? One thing cool about MythTV is the explicit backend/frontend separation. GB-PVR doesn't seem to have this as explicitly, but it seems that some people have had good success with this method. That being said, keep up the good work - I think it's an interesting project.
Originally, my thought was to do it all with Java so that it would run on Macs and other operating systems, but the Java Media Framework does not support MPEG2. At the time, I could not figure out how to get mplayer working with Java. mplayer is available for multple operating systems, though, as well as zlib, so eventually I (or someone) could port this to Java so that you could use a GBPVR client on Macs and Linux.
