[vdr] Re: How das GRAB work?

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On 12.08.2004 18:02, Sascha Volkenandt wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 11. August 2004 22:06 schrieb Matthias Schniedermeyer:
> > It was /dev/videoX
> >
> > This is from VDR 0.68
> >
> > dvbapi.c:#define VIDEODEVICE "/dev/video"
> 
> You're right, it uses a V4L device for both grabbing and tuning (and other dvb 
> dtuff). Well when I joined VDR the driver apparently just switched from V4L 
> to the Nokia API :-)

And the "old" driver had the advantage that you could do:
cat 001.vdr > /dev/video0
cat bla.mpg > /dev/video0
and it "just played" the file. :-)




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