Re: [Cooker] Totem + MythTV

[Frederic Crozat]

Le mercredi 30 janvier 2008 à 12:09 +0000, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I've just uploaded gmyth, a library for communicating with MythTV servers.
> 
> Totem will automatically detect and build an extension for playing
> MythTV media if gmyth-devel is installed at build time.
> 
> I've tested it with some degree of success. When I figured out how to
> tweak the settings via gconf-editor, it was able to list all the
> recordings from my MythTV server. It wasn't able to play them via the
> myth:// protocol as I presume a gvfs/gio extension is needed for this
> and I've not looked into it yet. I'm not sure if the extension will use
> NFS (like a standard MythFrontend will) but that would be my preferred
> solution anyway.
> 
> If people thing this is a nice thing (and it was posted on /. this week
> so awareness by potential users may be high), then can someone please
> move gmyth to main and apply the attached patch to totem?
> 
> The totem patch is minimal disruption but fedora split up the plugin
> into a separate totem-mythtv package. To do that with our package would
> require more changes to the spec to explicitly name plugins etc. I am
> happy to do this but didn't bother for now incase the maintainer didn't
> like the idea in the first place :)

I would really prefer to put this plugin in a separate subpackage. Most
people don't use mythTV and there is no point in requiring it by
default.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@mandriva.com>
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