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Someone point me to a ReplayTV project.

there isn't one going per se (at least I haven't seen one yet), but all of the tools are there...on the hardware side, you'll need a tv tuner, and Big-Assed Harddrive (TM).
On the software side, grab vcr. VCR is a command line tool to record divx files..it eats processors though, so make sure you got a good one..if you would like something that is a little leaner on the processor, grab mp1e (sorry no web page), the files you write will be bigger, but the quality is good, and only take about 15% of my celery 400.
To see what is on TV, either grab xmltv, tvguide, or the cream of the crop Mister House

Mister House looks pretty sweet, since it already embeds links to record shows right in the listings for recording(you'll have to hack it a bit to get it to use vcr/mp1e, but it'll work), and there is already code there for remembering your favourite shows, sorting for movies, etc, etc etc...

Now if you want to get fancy, you'll grab a DVD anywhere from x10 (to lazy to throw in the link), a second sound card in your Linux box, and a second video card in your Linux box, and it will all get run from your machine sitting in your room so that you don't have a noisy machine sitting your Living Room.
And of course this also gets you access to your MP3s, and web browser while sitting on the couch...

So why haven't you built this yet Jose, you ask? I'm working on it OK, GET OFF MY BACK!! =P

I looked around for a similar thing for my own project, and Doxygen was the best I found. Very full featured, and it can generate HTML, PDF, PS, LaTeX, even XML (sort of) from the same comments. I highly recommend it.

Might it not be a good idea to release a free edition of Qt for Win32? Now that the source is GPL'ed there's nothing to prevent somebody else from building a workalike implementation layer, but using TrollTech's source would make for much cleaner development and easier upgrades to the Professional edition.

I know a lot of the /. crowd consider the whole issue of Windows ports to be beneath contempt, but there are some useful OSS projects using Qt (Doxygen springs to mind) which supply binaries for Win32 but can't be built under Win32 unless you sell off some internal organs and buy a pro license. More testing eyeballs are all very well, but it seems a shame to restrict your developer base like this.

Tomoshi asks for a good mud and is suddenly pounced upon by hundreds of hideous creatures who slap him in the face with urls.

Try outerspace, at mud.stack.nl:3333, or have a look at the webpage first.

I don't want to name names in case they get Slashdotted,
Weehoo, In that case I'll promote the mud I play on a bit (we're running short on mortals atm :-( ): Outerspace. Either enter the mud immediately, or have a look at the mud's webpage.

After searching around for a bit and trying a few things the winning tool was doxygen. We had a mix of C, C++, and Sybase ESQL code. Doxygen is smart enough to make sense of undocumented code, but really comes into its own when you write javadoc or qt style comments. For C++ it creates browseable class hierachies, can output in HTML or LATEX and includes a search feature. Nothing better than plugging in a method/function/constant name, clicking search and seeing where it is used.

We had source code in a large hierarchy of directories that ran into hundreds of thousands of lines and it took care of it all in a couple of minutes. One tool I tried choked on the size of our code, plus because it didn't come with a proper C++ pre-processor got really tangled up.

I made the generation of the documentation part of our build and package process so each release automatically had up to date source code documentation.

It made our Delphi programmers with their fancy IDE jealous of our documentation.

It's not ready to post up yet, but if anyone wants a copy, my email is ducdan at usa dot net. I think my ultimate goal would be a bootable CD (faster than a floppy and elimininates a piece of hardware) that autoprobes your sound card, mounts the CD and starts the player. With a 2.8MB CD boot image it wouldn't be that hard to add support for network and SMBFS, if you want to copy the Dell player.

http://www.rsid.com/doc++ and http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ spring to mind.

I like these concepts, but I would love to write a broader replacement for these that uses generic video capture boards, for example.
I'd love to elaborate more, but I have to go back to work now. I might write more when I get home.

Here are a few links for converters/strippers/buffers, etc.

http://feste.mae.cornell.edu/st reeter/md/elektor.html
http://www.stack.nl/~leon/spdif/
http://www.fet.uni-hannover.de/ purnhage/dat/spdif.txt
and
http://members.tripod.com/~Psych/co ax-ttl-md.html

all grabbed from http://minidisc.org