[vdr] Re: Processing streams in plugins?

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

On Friday 30 August 2002 19:56, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> Am Freitag, 30. August 2002 19:32 schrieben Sie:
> > On Friday 30 August 2002 19:02, Sebastian Herp wrote:
> > > From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
> > >
> > > > What exactly makes you believe that this isn't possible?
> > > > Take a look at VDR/transfer.c.
> > >
> > > Hmm ... but only with two cards, isn't it? If not, it should be
> > > easy to realize timeshifting with only one card ...
> >
> > Unfortunately, the driver does not support recording and playing at
> > the same time using only one card. Therfore, timeshifting with one
> > card is not possible.

First of all, we are talking about a full-featured card like the DVB-S, 
right?

> Is there a hope the driver will provide this ?

I don't think so but I'm not a driver developer. It's my personal 
opinion after reading the driver mailing list for some time and looking 
into that part of the driver sources which is available to the public. 
The problem is the firmware of the ARM processor which is closed 
source, so only the guys at Convergence can change it.

Perhaps you should ask this question in the driver mailing list.

> I know some software
> under Win can do that ( I think Multidec is able to do that  ?) so
> the card must be able to do so ...

I don't think that *any* existing software can do timeshifting with a 
single card (AFAIK all sw is based on the linux driver, more or less).
What could be done is recording from the DVB card and implementing 
timeshift using the PC monitor as the output device. The monitor uses 
the grafic card, so the DVB is used for recording (but _not_ for 
playing).

Oliver