[vdr] Re: Announce: DVBVideoLAN

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mon, 2002-06-24 um 18.44 schrieb Markus Winkler:

> > > > I have a server with three low-budgets. So I do not have a OSD. I'll be
> > > > able to tune primary DVB by vdradmin, but are there any possibilities to
> > > > start streaming without OSD?
> > > Hm, not yet.I didn't think on no-osd-cards. Sorry. Perhaps i will extend
> > > the telnet feature of vdr.?
> > > 
> > 
> > Would be great if you do it with SVDRP. The features could be added to
> > VDRADMIN then - just click a link in VDRADMIN while browsing program or
> > 'what's now' and see liveTV, DVD, SVCD (in VDRADMIN there could be a
> > link to the RTP-ports. If the MIME-Types are specified well, the browser
> > would automatically start the media-player (IE + MediaPlayer + Elecard
> > PlugIn on Windoze, Mozilla/Netscape + Plugger + MPlayer on Linux/UNIX)

> i put that on my todo-list

I thougt about it. The best and simpliest solution to implement and have
as many options as possible should be a simple SVDRP-command:

	"stream [channel] [multicast-address] start/stop"

This would make it possible for any application to select channel and
address for the stream. Please use an ID for channel which is known by
vdradmin. So two simple start/stop-buttons can be added in the
programm-overview and there won't be problems for vdradmin to gather the
multicast-address to hand it over to a media-player (in case the address
is already in use you could return a usual error-code on SVDRP.

When do you think you approximately have time to implement this feature?
(It's the only missing to build a low-budget-only-server ...)

Rene