Hi, I'm a German student with an interesting project IMHO. My idea is a DVB daemon communicating via DBUS with different clients. The daemon is supposed to detect cards, handle scanning, recording and EPG and give an option to zap the interface. The client applications know just need to communicate with the daemon instead of the real devices. In addition I want to program a GNOME client for it, which idles in the systray to give feedback about status. Apart from that it is supposed to have scanning, recording and EPG features. So why do I thing we need such a daemon? For one thing you can't forget to start your recording application, so that you will miss less records. You should be aware of the fact, that a player blocks the DVB device. So if you are watching a movie with your player the record program would fail. I plan to inform the user about the recording, so that he/she (or the daemon?) can kill the player. For another thing there is no real DVB support in GNOME IMHO. Most DVB users use Kaffeine at the moment. The daemon can put away some work of the Totem guys. For example they can use the channel and EPG information it provides. So know my questions 1. What do you think of the project? 2. Is there anybody, who would like to mentor me? Sincerely, Sebastian Reichel
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