[vdr] Re: "Embedding" VDR

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

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From: "Andreas Mixich" <sp.amix@gmx.net>
To: "vdr" <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:39 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: "Embedding" VDR


> Rene Bartsch wrote in a Mail about "[vdr] Re: "Embedding" VDR":
>
> > I you want to stream in a Media-LAN, you could implement a plugin based
> > on ffserver.
>
> Yes, this might be a good idea. I assume you mean a Netscape-plugin ?! Not
> a VDR plugin...

No, a VDR-plugin. You need it to catch the streams from VDR ...

>
> > So you'd only need a browser and media-player on the client ...
>
> Well, the media-player shall be 'embedded'. I am not yet sure on how the
> final solution would look like, but I would like to go without X
completly.
> Not sure what browser options I may have. Maybe I need to do my own stuff,
> using the Mozilla source. But afaik it does not depend on X11.

You could use MPlayer as media-player. It supports a lot of
input-/output-systems (SDL, OSS, Framebuffer, X, ...).
It also has a "-slave"-option where you can embedd commands to control it
into the A/V-stream feeded by stdin.

> Fact is: The TV picture would have different "views". One is a typical
> menu. The other one is more "portal" like. In any way, all video would be
> available either in full-screen or as a PiP. Not sure not sure...still
> evaluating. But a fake-PiP would be possible within the menu if it would
be
> flash and HTML. I believe.
>

You could start several MPlayers for PIP, but I don't know how you could
handle the windows (anyway, you'd need a lot of CPU) ...
I also had the idea some time ago to display the video in a background layer
of the browser and the menu as HTML-links in an upper layer.

Rene



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