Re: [Dvbcentral-interest] DVB Central

[Jaroslav T. <Jar...@Su...>]

Hello Fabian,
thank you for your interested in the DVB Central project. I created it as I 
felt I could not satisfy my desire to program in Java. I had tried many other 
solutions before, but scripting in shell was not flexible enough. With Java 
and DVB Central 0.66 I have well working system ready for my home use.

Dne Friday 19 December 2008 15:27:54 Fabian Ritzmann napsal(a):
> I just bumped into DVB Central by chance and that looks like just the
> sort of thing I have been looking for. I have several years of
> experience as a VDR and MythTV user. Both don't really satisfy my
> needs. VDR has an abominable UI, is very difficult to extend and the
> client-server capabilities were glued on as an afterthought. MythTV
> has a decent architecture and nice UI, but still requires C++ to
> extend and I still haven't managed to configure my DVB cards entirely.
> Other solutions like Freevo or LinuxMCE are not sufficiently TV-
> centric for my needs and don't support all that many DVB functions.

I see. So far I have been using the DVB Central to schedule recordings and 
either stream or play on my DXR3 card.

> So I have long been looking for a basis to build a system based on
> Java that combines the best of VDR and MythTV and beyond. I am
> primarily interested in creating a full client-server based solution
> that is at least as easy to configure as MythTV and more extensible
> (with scripting languages).

My primary desire was to have command line interface. Then I started with http 
one. I am not opposed to have more.

> Does this resemble what you are having in mind? From the web site it
> looks to me like your implementation is fairly advanced already but
> still lacks the sophistication of MythTV when it comes to scheduling
> recordings, maintaining multiple recording servers, etc.? 

My implementation is not really sophisticated. So far the project is one man 
show (with occational help from Petr) and for that you do not need any 
complex configuration options.

> Maybe you 
> would want to set up a developers mailing list on SourceForce so that
> we can maintain this discussion? 

Done.

> I will probably not have any time to 
> look into installing DVB Central over Christmas (currently renovating
> an apartment and moving in January, but the good news is that I get a
> fixed network then!) but we could at least talk about your plans.

I have two things that I'd like to implement when I have time: I want to write 
code in Java to parse the TS stream (btw. Petře, can you send me your C 
version, so I my task is simplified?). Also I am waiting for javafx to 
produce video players in Java capable to display mpeg on Linux. Then I'd like 
integrate that into the HTML interface.

-jst