[vdr] Re: Composite / S-VHS input ?

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

Gavin Hamill wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:12:35PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Gavin Hamill wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:34:33AM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >
> > Who said I was living in Germany ;-)
> 
> Ah ha :) So where abouts are you, just out of personal nosiness?

Well, of course I live in Germany...

> > I've quickly zipped together my current Sky plugin source and uploaded
> > it to ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/pub/etc/vdr-sky.zip. It's still very much
> > under development. Just take a look if you like, to see how easy it is
> > to connect any kind of MPEG2 Transport Stream source to VDR.
> 
> OK, I'm completely inept with C programming, but if I simply made a pipe
> called /dev/video2, started VDR, chose a Sky channel and then ran
> 
> $ cat sometransportstream.ts >/dev/video2
> 
> should VDR play it? Or is there some v4l ioctl stuff going on that I'm
> missing?

There's no ioctl() stuff, it simply reads the TS from /dev/video (actually
/dev/video2 in my case, but that will be configurable). Maybe I'll implement
an automatic search for the Kfir device, but it will of course work without
that.

Klaus
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