[vdr] Re: about the vdr streaming plugin

[Alexis Guerin <alexis.guerin@isep.fr>]

On Tuesday 25 February 2003 17:24, you wrote:

Hi Sascha,
Thank you for your answer,
I'm not sure to understand very well how your plugin works...

> On Dienstag, 25. Februar 2003 15:58 Alexis Guerin wrote:
> > 1- firstly, can this plugin be used to stream several channels on the
> > network. (channels on the same transponder with 1 card, or on different
> > transponders with 2 cards) (ie : several instance of ffmpeg/ffserver)
>
> This is not possible with the current streaming plugin, as the main purpose
> of that (mainly) was to duplicate the tv screen.
>
> Because I wanted something like that, too, I have started creating a whole
> new streaming-plugin which uses a Client/Server Protocol similar to the
> SVDRP and FTP protocols.
>
> The client part of the plugin serves as a fully implemented Input-Device
> serving a TS stream to VDR, and the server part works with receivers.

- Do you mean that the client is a machine running VDR and receiving (via the 
LAN) a TS stream provided by the server machine (with DVB cards and 
eventually DVD drive) which is also running VDR.
- You are talking about TS stream, but can that be mpeg4 encoded data (Divx), 
like in the first ffmpeg/ffserver plugin.

> You could easily implement other clients that are controlled by a simple
> script and output via mplayer.

> The plugin is mainly ready and works here, but since I only have one
> full-featured card for the server and one DXR3-Client, my testing
> possibilities are limited.

What do you need DXR3 decoder for? Is it because you are running VDR on the 
client side? Would it not be possible to use any kind of computer as a client 
(even without hardware decoder)? Is that what you mean by "simple script and 
output to mplayer)?

> Anyone with more than one dvb-card or more than one client willing to help
> out here?
>
> > 2- Is it possible to stream from a DVD (dvd plugin), from an already
> > recorded file on hard drive, or from a Divx on hard drive.
> > It doesn't seem to be possible at the moment, but if it's not, would that
> > require a lot of work to implement?
>
> This is planned as a future addition, too.

That would be great, it would make a very powerful multimedia streaming 
application.

Sorry if I am missing everything about the structure of your plugin...
Do you hav any plans to release it soon??

regards,
Alexis



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