[vdr] Re: cReceivers in plugins

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

Kai Moeller wrote:
> 
> On Friday 09 May 2003 17:19, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > I have uploaded a patch to
> > ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/pub/etc/vdr-1.1.30-initplugins.diff that separates the
> > plugin startup into Initialize() and Start().
> >
> > Plugin authors should please take a look at this and, if applicable,
> > adapt their plugins accordingly (and, of course, let me know if there
> > is something wrong with this modification). This will go into VDR 1.1.31,
> > which I am planning to release sunday evening (please wait with officially
> > releasing adapted plugin versions until VDR 1.1.31 has been released,
> > otherwise we're probably going to drown in postings complaining about
> > plugins not working with the "official" VDR version... ;-)
> >
> 
> Works for the dxr3-plugin without problems (we are going to change this for
> the next version) .
> 
> But this change doesn't solve the problem that it is not possible to attach a
> receiver at the dxr3-device.
> The latest osdteletext-plugin version solves this problem by checking whether
> the primary device provides the current channel or not. If this is not the
> case it iterates through the list of devices and checks whether one of the
> devices is able to provide the current channel and that the device is in use.
> It's seems to be important to check that the device is in use because
> otherwise it may happen that a second dvb card is tuned to the same channel
> which leads to stream errors on my system.
> This is the only way we found to find the dvb card that is currently connected
> at the dxr3-device.
> Does anybody know a better (cleaner) way to solve that problem?
> Or is it worth to think about a way to connect two devices in a way so that
> they may appear for the user as one device (so that the dxr3-device together
> with a budget dvb card behaves like a fullfeatured card).
> For such a feature the dxr3-device would need to know from which device it
> currently receives data. Furthermore it must be possible to redirect the
> AttachReceiver-Call to the dvb device (at the moment these function are not
> virtual).

I'll see to come up with a way to ask the primary device for the "actual device".

Klaus
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