Tony Houghton wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:47:35 +0200 (EET) > Mika Laitio <lamikr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>>> I checked boxstar web-page (http://boxstar.sourceforge.net/index.html) >>>> and I have to say that the goal of the project is ambiguous. Hopefully >>>> the developer can actually do it. >>>> >>> Do you mean ambitious? Yes, it is going to be a big challenge, but >>> hopefully it'll get there one day. >>> >> At least for now it seems to use vdr as a backend. Has anybody tested it. >> > > I should let on that I'm the developer and I've been using it a lot. I > started writing it back before VDR had a media player, so some sort of > frontend was really needed; even now I think boxstar has a lot of > advantages over VDR's media player, but VDR, especially with the > xineliboutput plugin, did improve a lot so I wasn't motivated to develop > boxstar's own DVB support. > > Now I've got a DVB-S card and a DVB-T card together, VDR's channels > management just isn't good enough, so because of all sorts of other > niggles and because I don't like C++ enough to make big changes to VDR I > want to press ahead again with boxstar's DVB support. > > Few comments/suggestions to boxstar: -roadmap: boxtar itself does not seem to show EPG unless it is incorporated into manage timers and recordings. Anyhow, I really hope you implement TVOnScreen type of EPG viewer and similar EPG search -plugin for automated timers. -OSD: not much is said about that but I hope it will scale according to the resolution and be full-coloured. -I assume that boxstar is developed to be full client-server solution which allows multiple fully independent clients. What would be nice addition because of the today's motherboards is that bostar-daemon could be run on multiple PCs for single system. This would allow to use cheap mATX boards that have one or two PCI slots to build a massive (?) system of e.g. 6 DVB cards. Some kind of master server might be needed for centralized recordings, timers etc. Br, Pasi _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
