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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:

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

Then build and run:

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.