Month: November 2007

Finally implemented this one (got tired of having to scroll/search every time I want to switch between Kanaal2 and VT4 😉 ). Instead of providing a separate setup dialog for rearranging channels I just added an editing mode to the default gui. I also got rid of my sorting proxy model which makes the model more simple yet less flexible. I think it is still flexible enough and that the previous level of flexibility was overkill. 😉 The screenshot is on windows with fake data. 🙂 Somehow my application icon got lost in the conversion. It’s crappy (programmer’s art) anyway. 😉

I wrote a few points down as a way to structure my thoughts. It was never really intended to publish as a road map, but publishing gives everyone an idea where this project is heading. 🙂

This is a list of things I see being implemented by version 1.0. The order in the list also approximately reflects the order of implementation as basic features seem to correspond to easy implementation. 🙂 (aside from the fact that almost everything in this app is quite trivial ;))

1. channel setup
• import from xawtv
• start from europe-west defaults
• reordering
2. simple tuning
• sequential tuning with mouse wheel
• direct select with keypad, visually and physically
• direct select with list; this is channel editor without editing func 🙂
3. configurable commands
• for viewing, recording, playing..
4. recording
• configurable rec path
• scheduled recording with at
• on the fly recording by streaming the video to file and starting a player on the output file
• time shifting: same as above, but start paused player 🙂
• somehow use vlc’s save stream option somewhere..?
5. playback of recorded movies
• show list using the configurable rec path
6. transcoding
• show list of all recordings using the the configurable rec path
• save long lasting recordings as mpeg4 to conserve space
• use transcode 😉

I used to borrow a friend’s Hauppauge WinTV card (bt878 chipset) for tv viewing until I finally bought my own Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150 . I went for the PVR series as I figured recording would be much more convient (pvr series comes with a hardware MPEG2 encoder).

In the past I had used the brooktree wintv card under linux which was really a joy since it worked out of the box along with all available soft (after trying xawtv, motv, (whatever-)tv, tvtime, etc.. I settled with KdeTV (formerly kwintv)). It even seemed the card was better supported under linux than under windows. I figured the pvr series would be supported as well as it seemed to be a fairly popular card for HTPCs. Which turned out to be slightly nuanced. 🙂
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