[vdr] Re: @Reinhard Nissl: How do you want to connect Xine toVDR?

[Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>]

Hi,

Rene Bartsch wrote:

> Am Son, 2003-08-10 um 14.12 schrieb Reinhard Nissl:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Rene Bartsch wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Reinhard,
> > >
> > > have you already decided how to interface Xine to VDR?
> > Well, I've been in discussion with a xine developer and he suggests me to use 
> > xine-lib directly for minized delays and memcpys.
> Mmmh, that means you want to use the lib-xine code directly in your
> plugin?
As a first start, yes.

> But this means the MPEG-decoder/GUI is running all the time and you
> can't stop it without stopping VDR - so there's no use for VDR as
> video-recorder anymore as running with MPEG-decoder will mean high
> CPU-load -> waste of current -> heat -> noise by fans.
I'll keep this in mind. I also like a quiet (and cool) system.

> I'd suggest to implement one plugin for VDR and one for Xine, both
> connected by tcp or udp.
>
> e.g. starting
>
> vdr -P"\xine -p[port]"\ as a daemon
>
> and then connect xine by need with
>
> xine vdr://[vdrserverip]:[vdrport]
Maybe for version 1.x. For now, I don't want to spend extra time on 
communication stuff. In about two weeks, when I get my new dish, I'd like to 
use VDR via my plugin.

> Copying the the MPEG-stream should be easy and the OSD doesn't have a
> lot pixel or color-depth.
I'm shure, this is possible.

> That way you could also prepare the plugin for multiuser-mode when
> VDR-1.3 is coming up (e.g. connecting multiple xine-clients at the same
> time).
I think, this needs a deeper discussion: what is the multiuser-mode for 
vdr-1.3? Does it make sense to supply a single OSD to multiple clients? How 
about a separate OSD for every client? How does a client operate on an OSD? 
What happens if multiple clients operate on the OSD at the same time?

As I mentioned above: I don't say NO to implement such a solution, but not in 
the near future.

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




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