[vdr] Re: Writing a cDevice plugin

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

Reinhard Nissl wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> >>I'm writing a plugin for playback by using xine. OSD and playback of existing
> >>recordings seem to work.
> >>
> >>My problem is, that I don't know, how to get VDR to supply the live stream of
> >>my Hauppage Nova-S to my plugin.
> >
> > Since I suppose your cDevice derived class doesn't overwrite the ProvidesChannel()
> 
> That's correct.
> 
> > function, VDR should always automatically go into transfer mode when you switch
> > to a channel that your Novs-S provides. There should be nothing extra you would
> 
> At least I can switch channels and VDR doesn't complain about "Channel not
> available" as it did some days ago, when I didn't load the dvb drivers.
> 
> > have to do.
> 
> But I do not get any calls to PlayVideo(). Is it OK, that my primary DVB
> interface is 2? Without loading the dvb drivers it was 1.

Your primary device must be the device provided by the plugin.

When you switch to an actual channel, a "transfer mode" thread should
be started automatically.

Klaus


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