Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:45:21 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Subject: Re: "Windows 98" Message-ID: <19980313144521.56434@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19980313070708.24612@ct.picker.com>; from Randall Hopper on Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 07:07:08AM -0500 References: <19980312224107.20558@follo.net> <19980313070708.24612@ct.picker.com>
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On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 07:07:08AM -0500, Randall Hopper wrote: > Eivind Eklund: > |>From http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,20006,00.html > | > | Windows 98 is an upgrade of Windows 95 that is slated to > | include an integrated Web browser, a television tuner and > | program guide, faster application loading, and built-in support > | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > | for multiple monitors, DVD, and universal serial bus > | connections. The browser will let users view local, network, > | and Internet data without switching applications. > | > |We should probably be doing something about getting fxtv to support this. I > |started, but I got blocked by not knowing Xaw at all :-( > > I'm not sure I know what you mean. What I tried to do was just to get Fxtv to read a program guide, which containted the following: * Program channel, name and times (e.g, TV 2 has Cheers from time N to time N, specified as seconds from 1970) * Program type - SPORT, SERIAL, etc. * User state information, like "I'm not interested in knowing that XXX exists" as a flag for each program, set seperately from Fxtv. My intention was to make it possible to avoid ever getting sports and bad serials into my fxtv :-) However, I was stopped at the early point of getting even a channel name displayed by not knowing Xaw - I had code that was (as far as I could tell) equal to the other string display code in fxtv, but it Just Didn't Work. > The way it's worded, it's hard to tell what that is. But given this is > Microsoft, I'm guessing this means they're subsuming yet more app-level > functionality into the base delivered operating (likely some DLL and a > little GUI interface ala mediaplayer) that provides a layer above drivers > for changing channels via tuner cards. `ActiveTV' or some such. > > If so, I don't think it does much for us. I think we should be able to do the same functionality - make Fxtv understand actual programs/shows, not just knowing about channels. That's about as far as I wanted to go. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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