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[Bruno Girin <brunogirin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas,

I completely agree with your comments on usability. It should behave 
exactly the same as a TV when you switch it on and all more involved 
tasks should be accessible via the menu button on the remote: so press 
"menu" and you get access to the full distro in a way that is still TV 
friendly.

Having said that, I have two questions that you may be able to comment on:

 * Could that be a achieved by creating a different MythTV front-end
   but keeping the back-end unchanged?
 * Could unity-2d be a good starting point to do something like this?

Cheers,

Bruno

On 31/12/11 00:09, Thomas Söderberg wrote:
> Regarding repo this one is the one to use git@xxxxxxxxxx:obit/ObitTV.git
>
> 2011/12/30 Thomas Söderberg <thomas@xxxxxxx <mailto:thomas@xxxxxxx>>
>
>     Hello all
>
>     My simple thoughts to success for UbuntuTV
>
>     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
>
>
>     Below are my recipes
>
>     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)
>
>     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).
>
>     The poc that I've came up tonight could be followed and cloned at
>     https://obit@xxxxxxxxxx/obit/ObitTV.git
>
>
>     basic ideas are followed
>
>
>     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)
>
>
>
>     My simple thoughts,
>
>     Thomas