andrei at tanas
Dec 4, 2007, 1:10 PM
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Hi,
I've been working on Windows port of MythTV for some time, and I finally
have something to show. Instead of using Cygwin as attempted in the past, I
switched completely to MinGW, implemented Direct3D-based video renderer
(which works fine in Vista, as opposed to DirectX overlays) and Windows
audio, made tons of small corrections (some of them are actual MythTV bugs).
Things that work:
Frontend
UI works fine, including OpenGL painter
Live TV and recorded TV playback
Video playback (mythvideo), including ISO images of DVD disks
Program guide
Plugins
MythVideo - works fine
MythControls
Things that can be compiled but have not been tested
mythtranscode, mythcommflag,
MythMusic (including libvisual and sdl), MythGallery, MythWeather,
MythMovies
Things that don't work:
Backend: no video capture (though it shouldn't be too hard to implement
DirectShow-based capture), does not respond to socket connections
Frontend: there's a major problem with the "tv_out" QWidget caused by the
fact
that it's created on a different thread (not the main UI thread).
In Windows this causes all sorts of problems, the worst of which is the
frontend
hanging when trying to switch to program guide from live tv.
CD ripping: it looked like it was going to take too long to port
cdparanoia to
Windows so I ended up disabling ripping altogether
CD playback: windows cd device handling needs to be implemented in
libcdaudio
I've posted the patch against current SVN (15016) here:
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4270
And those who want to try some of the binaries (with all the bugs, it's hard
to actually use them) here:
http://tanas.ca/mythtv.zip (30MB, download is limited to 800kbps).
It is currently very buggy of course, but it does work, and I'd like to know
what it would take to have it included in SVN so that more developers could
collaborate on Windows version.
Regards,
Andrei Tanas.
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MythTV on Windows
