[vdr] Re: Composite / S-VHS input ?

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

Gavin Hamill wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:34:33AM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Gavin Hamill wrote:
> > >
> >
> > I'm doing something similar with the MPEG2 encoder card (see
> > http://linuxtv.org/mpeg2/kfir.xml). I use it to connect my Sky Digibox
> > to VDR, and it works pretty good. I'll soon release the necessary VDR
> > plugin, but before I do so I'll need to implement the "unique channel
> > ID" stuff to make sure the EPG data is assigned to the correct
> > channels.
> 
> You have a Sky Digibox in Germany?

Who said I was living in Germany ;-)

> Anyway, that's a very pricey encoder
> card! ;/ Would you consider amending your plugin so that instead of
> reading from the Linux device of the Kfir, it instead reads an MPEG
> Program Stream from stdin, or some abritrary file?
> 
> This would leave it open-ended enough for people to decide if they
> wanted to create the MPEG stream with mp1e / ffmpeg / mencoder or any
> other source e.g. network / another VDR box, etc.
> 
> I too would love to be able to record from my Sky Digibox since there
> are so many more channels via satellite then our Free-to-Air terrestrial
> system, and this looks like it could be the ticket, combined with a
> cheap BT848-card and a suitably grunty CPU...

I've quickly zipped together my current Sky plugin source and uploaded it to
ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/pub/etc/vdr-sky.zip. It's still very much under development.
Just take a look if you like, to see how easy it is to connect any kind of
MPEG2 Transport Stream source to VDR.

> Of course then there's the problem of integration with an EPG, but
> that's another story for another day ;)

I've written a Perl script that fetches the EPG data from Sky's web site
and puts it into VDR's EPG ;-)

This plugin integrates the Digibox into VDR in a way that almost makes you
forget that there's actually an external box involved. I can live with the
fact that the original MPEG data is converted to analog and then re-digitized,
since the gain in comfort and flexibility totally outweighs that.

As soon as I've implemented the "unique channel ID" into VDR I'll officially
release this plugin. It can, of course, also be used as a starting point for
connecting any other MPEG2 source to VDR.

Klaus
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