Re: Using mplayer as DVB watcher

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 15:20:32 Alfredo Pironti wrote:

>
> > uhm, it's something that probably belongs much more to a frontend
> > than to mplayer itself
>
> Indeed. It is possible that all the features I'm looking for belong
> more to a frontend than mplayer itself.
> Initially, I wanted to avoid writing an external frontend, trying
> to reuse as much mplayer as possible (most notably OSD support),
> but the drawback is a read-only channel group browsing. Moreover,
> another problem arises: with TV I have the concept of "next" and
> "previous" channel.
> This would be lost by using mplayer alone.

'h' and 'k' in plain mplayer

>
> We can also think about another solution. Once we decide what's
> best, I'll start coding.

before writing something new, kmplayer  (IIRC) should be the best
frontend already available

> I could write a frontend, that by using bmovl feature of mplayer,
> displays it's own OSD menu.
> All channel-switching and grouping logic, and remote control input
> would be handled by the frontend; mplayer being only instructed on
> what channel and overlay menu to display.
> I see there are similar project to this one linked on the mplayer
> pages (mplayerTV, GHDTV,dvbzap-dvbtv), but none of them seems to
> fit my needs. Also, my effort could be spent in patching/improving
> freevo (which already uses bmovl) instead.
>
> I think carefully designing the application can avoid wasting hours
> programming something that then turns out to be useless :-)
>

another thing: maybe kaffeine is the closest thing to what you 
are looking for, although it doesn't use mplayer.