Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] MythTV

[Kevin Fox <Kevin Fox pnl gov>]

Well, the problem I see with this is that MythTV supports multiple front
ends per backend, so it needs to handle that case. If the UI were split
from rhythmdb, it would either need to support a remote rhythmdb and
multiple views per rhythmdb, or rhythmdb would need to support multiple
rhythmdb's accessing the same database (Which could be an nfs export or
something). MythTV already requires a mysql database, so having a mysql
rhythmdb doesn't add any extra dependencies and solves the problem I
think.

Kevin

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 09:45 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> We've been discussing this in IRC.  I haven't done the work just yet.  But
> the idea is to split rhythmdb from the ui, and then make changes to the 
> ui code.
> 
> The splitting isn't too bad since rhythmbdb is mostly a seperate
> component from the core.  We have no plans to make the backend
> a database.  There is some stuff in autoconf to use sqlite backend
> and a gda backend.  I think they are disabled though.
> 
> The rhythmdb will probably add some dbus stuff so that we can
> communicate database changes to interested clients.  The idea I had
> when I came up with splitting it was similar to what you're wanting
> which is a single database that contains music files for a desktop.
> This frees people to write id3 tag editors for large music collections
> in an integrated manner as well as new kinds of players (eg tag based)
> without having to make rb a completely integrated solution trying to
> do everything for everyone.
> 
> sri
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:37:37PM -0800, Kevin Fox wrote:
> > Hey guys. I was wondering what the status of rhythmboxdb is and how
> > separable the gui part of Rhythmbox is from its core. Has it been ported
> > to a sql database like mysql yet? I've been using MythTV a lot recently
> > but its music player is horrible compared to Rhythmbox. I was
> > contemplating a port of Rhythmbox to Myth and am trying to get a handle
> > on how much work that would be.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
> > 
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