[vdr] AW: Idea about using vdr without hardware mpeg2 decoder

["Bläser, Lars" <LBlaeser@hofheim.de>]

> Von: David Philippi [mailto:lists@torangan.de]
> Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 18. September 2002 11:13
> An: 'vdr@linuxtv.org'
> Betreff: [vdr] Idea about using vdr without hardware mpeg2 decoder
> 
> Hi
> 
> Since I belong to the people who own a DVB card without TV 
> out due to the 
> fact that I'd prefer to use the TV out of my graphic card I 
> thought a bit 
> about the problem.
> I've just tested that a cat somefile | mplayer - works, so I 
> wonder why there 
> isn't a plugin that just takes the MPEG 2 stream of vdr an 
> pipes it to 
> mplayer. Real recording should be as simple as writing the 
> data into a file 
> first and writing it to stdout second. I guess it wouldn't be 
> possible to 
> insert OSD in this case but using kvdr this shouldn't be that 
> much of a 
> problem.
> Am I missing some problems here?

yeaa just write a plugin for the new 1.1.x version and a lot people will be very happy :-)