On 2001.11.27 06:40 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:51:21AM +0000, Stephen Davies wrote: > > > > I don't see any on-topic list for homebrew PVR projects. > > Shall we create one? > > I was thinking of more than just a list. I was thinking of starting a > sourceforge project for an open pvr. Some place that brings together > all of this knowledge that we have gathered in capping and playing > would be nice. > Are you thinking of something like http://freshmeat.net/projects/apachetoolbox/ which is a set of scripts+patches(?) that use wget or similar to grab everthing and compile it correctly with patches and add in spiffy wrapper scripts that people on the list seem to have done for themselves? Or were you thinking of yet-another-branch of the various sources? You can probably already tell my bias. I'm thinking of things like avifile which is included in xmovie, xmps(?), lamp, etc... This isn't necessarily a correct list, all I did was `locate avifile` but you get the point. I don't mean to pick on avifile. I've seen this happen before quite a few times, someone starts out a new project trying to integrate the various different codecs etc. I think the last one I looked at was mpeg4ip. The point is that no one seems to realize the scope of the problem or vastly underestimates the amount of effort required. So, if you are really serious about making this project work, what is the plan? I would think a list of all the possible various pieces (even the crappy ones) would need to be made first, with annotations detailing the current functionality, which interface it uses, known problems/work arounds, etc... otherwise how can you hope to solve the problem? t.
