[vdr] Re: Playback with VGA card and record th the same time?

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

Marco wrote:
> 
> I have a VGA card with a TV Out, connected to my TV. I watch divx
> through the VGA card, because it is much faster than the playback with
> the DVB card.
> Now if I could watch the VDR recordings also with the VGA card, I could
> record a movie and watch it (timeshift) or watch a other recorded movie
> at the same time.
> But how do I get the playback on my VGA card (I use only console, no X)?
> And if I record a movie, I can not playback a other one, because VDR
> says recording in process. That's right, if I want to watch it on my DVB
> card.

In the 1.1.x line of VDR you can add your own devices. So you could
implement a device (derived from the cDevice class) which converts
and displays the MPEG data on the VGA card. You would presumably also
have to send the audio data to your soundcard.

Andreas Schultz has used a derived cDevice class to implement a device
for replaying on a DXR3 card, which, from what I've heard, works pretty
fine. So if you have some code that can display MPEG data on the VGA
card and send audio to the sound card, what you want should be possible.

Klaus
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