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[Thomas Söderberg <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Regarding repo this one is the one to use git@xxxxxxxxxx:obit/ObitTV.git

2011/12/30 Thomas Söderberg <thomas@xxxxxxx>

> Hello all
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> My simple thoughts to success for UbuntuTV
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> I've been using mythtv for a long time and even though I found it really
> nice but complains have been issued by my relatives :-( They found it hard
> to use, mainly because they are all used to a normal tv (press channel 1 on
> remote and channel 1 pops up without hazzle and waiting). I think this is
> very keen to success for future UbuntuTV. It should be simple as 'hel'l
> from start and if you need extra features you add it as you go along,
> However it should also contain the extra feature that we all want, but from
> the basic it should be very easy to use and look nice (It's all about
> perceptions) . Another important thing is speed. Switching between channels
> should be fast. The other thing that I see as important are that it's
> easily customizable
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> Below are my recipes
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> I've did some quick hacking tonight and come up with the following
> arrangement. (eg It's not about perceptions in this POC just a quick hack)
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> Frontend client should be made by Qt/QML it should be capable of reading
> almost all  media url's rtp/rtps/fileshares etc etc
> Backend included for dvb should be made of streaming dvb card out in the
> air (rtp).
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> The poc that I've came up tonight could be followed and cloned at
> https://obit@xxxxxxxxxx/obit/ObitTV.git
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> basic ideas are followed
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> QT app handles core play of files to screen (currently using vlc lib did
> start with gstreamer but the sink was not fast enough and I didn't have the
> time to speed it up for th POC)  See a great future for using gstreamer as
> main lib for viewing.
> QML handles all the GUI stuff for presenting menus etc (Right now it
> doesn't do much just show a simple overlay when pressing F1 where you could
> choose channels) This would make it easy to modify and expand without
> changing the core.
> PosgresDB as stores for url to medialinks etc
> For my home right now I'm using DVBLast for streaming dvb (It's working as
> a charm and is very stable)
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> My simple thoughts,
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> Thomas
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