[vdr] Extending VDR's cDevice -- Looking for assistance

[Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>]

Hi,

the attached patch extends VDR's cDevice. The new method Flush() is expected 
to wait a certain amout of time for the device to drain it's buffers.

I've added this method for vdr-xine, because xine's buffers are quite large 
and it was quite annoying to loose e. g. 16 seconds at the end of a radio 
recording (with xine's default buffer settings) when VDR hit the end of the 
recording and switched back to live TV, where I send a 'discard buffers' 
command to xine.

This method could also improve the dvd plugin: I've often realized, that there 
is a sequence like that, when an DVD menu is to be shown:

	PlayVideo/PlayAudio
	StillImage
	Clear
	PlayVideo/PlayAudio

Typically, the still image wasn't shown, as it still stuck in xine's buffers, 
and the 'Clear' was already issued.

Ok, back to VDR. Klaus got already my patches, and I assume they are part of 
the next VDR release. But as I don't have a full featured card, I couldn't 
provide a better solution for cDvbDevice::Flush() than simply 'return true;'.

I would be very glad, if someone could provide an implementation of this 
method for a full featured card.

Bye.
--
Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
mailto:rnissl@gmx.de

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