Re: [Openpvr-devel] So, is this project officially dead?

[Brian J. M. <5b6...@in...>]

To answer the subject line -- nope.  Not yet.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:06:24PM -0800, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> Looks liks last commit was 3 months ago, and last message was Nov-2002.
>=20
> Did someone turn out the lights,

~looking around~  Lights are still on here.  The lack of commits just
means stability and happiness.  :-)  Seriously though, I have been
using the code that in CVS (the scheduler) and my hacked up GTK GUI
(just a simple pick list-> mplayer launcher) for over a year now.  It
does everything I want it to (or mostly -- as time for new features is
limited).

I probably have some outstanding code I need to commit, but it's
nothing major.

I have been looking at the Freevo project, and do have it functioning
on DirectFB with the G400 CRTC2 support.  I kinda like Freevo, but it
has some usability issues for me currently.  The main problem is the
poll based event loop rather than an interrupt driven one.  This
causes the IR and UI to be too sluggish for my likes.

There are also some missing UI features that I need before I can start
using it like password protected folders and a menu supporting
the display and viewing of recorded televsion programs properly.  The
"Movies" menu item is just not suitable.  The sort is wrong, it does
not display dates, and does not query about file deletion after
playing.

If I were a Python hacker (I am learning currently) and had a little
more time to fully understand the Freevo code I would solve these
problems myself, but I don't have the skills (yet) or the time
currently.

Once I do get proficient in Python, I will probably try porting the
schduler and recording tools over to Python and see how well they
perform (the scheduler can be quite compute intensive in the case of
lots of conflicts) so Freevo can have a good conflict resolving
scheduler and recording tools.  But until then...

> or has everyone moved to MythTV or Freevo?

That could happen and the openpvr tools could get folded into Freevo
(or maybe MythTV -- I have not looked at it in some time) but not yet.

b.

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Brian J. Murrell