# Passport-C Media Player

Passport-C Media Player is a low-dependency SDL2 + FFmpeg prototype that recreates the 2004-era Passport DCT cable guide with live-seeking channels.

## Features

- Live-TV epoch clock based on `time(NULL)`
- 200 ms black-screen channel tuning delay
- Fullscreen and guide modes
- 5-row Passport-style guide with a 90-minute timeline
- Background decoder thread with a bounded frame queue
- Automatic channel discovery from `./media`

## Layout

- `src/` - application, UI, channel scan, and playback code
- `media/` - channel video files
- `guide-ui.jpg` - visual reference used for proportions and palette

## Controls

- `Up` / `Down` - surf channels
- `Tab` - toggle guide
- `Esc` - exit guide or quit the app

## Build

Install development packages for SDL2, SDL2_ttf, and FFmpeg headers before building.

Typical Debian or Ubuntu packages:

```bash
sudo apt install build-essential libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev libswresample-dev libavutil-dev
```

Then build and run:

```bash
make
./passport-c-media-player
```

## Media

The player scans `./media` for supported video files and converts filenames into channel names and current program titles.

Current sample channels:

- `media/reading.mp4`
- `media/computers.mp4`

## Fonts

The UI tries `BigBlueTermPlus Nerd Font` first, then falls back to common Linux monospace fonts.