Re: Report DVB Manager Week 10

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

Bastien Nocera schrieb:
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 18:28 +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: 
> > Blog post at http://www.k-d-w.org/node/53
> >
> > As mentioned in last week's report, I concentrated on an assistant to 
> > setup DVB cards and a preferences GUI to create new device groups and 
> > edit existing ones. Currently, there are three GUI applications. One to 
> > manage timers, one to manage devices and one to setup your cards. In the 
> > next couple of weeks I'm going to make those UIs nicer and merge all of 
> > them in one single application.
>
> Is merging them all in one app a good idea?
>
> I've just committed code to allow a helper application to be used to
> configure DVB channels on a specific card. This would certainly require
> an interface that would be different from a configuration tool. Think a
> one-page wizard, rather than a full fledged channels manager.
>
> The gist of it:
> - The scanner should install a binary in $(libexecdir)/totem-dvb-scanner
> or a link to that effect)
> - The scanner needs to handle --transient-for=XXX where XXX is the XID
> of the parent window it needs to be transient for, as well as a single
> number telling you the index of the DVB adapter to configure.
> - On success, the scanner should return "4" as the exit status, and "3"
> for failures.
>
> When the "Watch TV on adapter bleh" is clicked in the menu, or "dvb:" is
> passed to Totem, the helper will be launched, and an error message will
> appear if the scanner isn't present, crashed, or failed to create a
> channels.conf file. It will load the channel listings as normal if it
> succeeds.
I already started a wizard to scan channels. I can adept it that it 
works as you mentioned.

However, afaik Totem expects a channels file at 
~/.gstreamer-0.10/dvb-channels.conf. When you have two adapters of 
different types it won't work. Are there plans to change this?

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl