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 g...@github.com:obit/ObitTV.git
2011/12/30 Thomas Söderberg <tho...@obit.se <mailto:tho...@obit.se>>
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://o...@github.com/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
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