Tony Houghton wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:47:35 +0200 (EET) Mika Laitio lamikr@pilppa.org wrote:
I checked boxstar web-page (http://boxstar.sourceforge.net/index.html) and I have to say that the goal of the project is ambiguous. Hopefully the developer can actually do it.
Do you mean ambitious? Yes, it is going to be a big challenge, but hopefully it'll get there one day.
At least for now it seems to use vdr as a backend. Has anybody tested it.
I should let on that I'm the developer and I've been using it a lot. I started writing it back before VDR had a media player, so some sort of frontend was really needed; even now I think boxstar has a lot of advantages over VDR's media player, but VDR, especially with the xineliboutput plugin, did improve a lot so I wasn't motivated to develop boxstar's own DVB support.
Now I've got a DVB-S card and a DVB-T card together, VDR's channels management just isn't good enough, so because of all sorts of other niggles and because I don't like C++ enough to make big changes to VDR I want to press ahead again with boxstar's DVB support.
Few comments/suggestions to boxstar: -roadmap: boxtar itself does not seem to show EPG unless it is incorporated into manage timers and recordings. Anyhow, I really hope you implement TVOnScreen type of EPG viewer and similar EPG search -plugin for automated timers. -OSD: not much is said about that but I hope it will scale according to the resolution and be full-coloured. -I assume that boxstar is developed to be full client-server solution which allows multiple fully independent clients. What would be nice addition because of the today's motherboards is that bostar-daemon could be run on multiple PCs for single system. This would allow to use cheap mATX boards that have one or two PCI slots to build a massive (?) system of e.g. 6 DVB cards. Some kind of master server might be needed for centralized recordings, timers etc.
Br, Pasi