[vdr] Re: Plugins the right way to go??

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Benjamin Forgeau wrote:
> 
>         Hi you all,
> 
>         As far as I understood, we can put plugins in VDR, right?? I'm using a
> pretty old version now. But I'm wondering...
> 
>         I read an article in "IEEE Spectrum" about the digital "Hubbub". It's
> the nickname given to a box capable of storing, displaying and
> streaming multimedia contents. VDR is a great application, but I feel
> it becomes very complicated. I have no idea how complicated it would
> be, but could VDR evolve in the direction of a client/server "networked
> multimedia platform", where one of the clients uses the
> OSD/Keyboard/LIRC???

The fact that VDR now allows plugins to add functionality IMO doesn't
contradict a possible client/server interface. The two things don't really
have much to do with each other.

I do want to make it possible for several VDRs in a network to communicate
with each other, but that's something for the future ;-)

Klaus
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