[vdr] Re: @ Reinhard Nissl: vdr-xine supporting plugins?

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 21:15, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> Am Mit, 2003-08-27 um 23.49 schrieb Reinhard Nissl:
> 
> > 
> > May basic idea was, to provide a plugin for VDR that uses xine-lib for 
> > displaying MPEG stream and OSD. At the moment, I'm working on the part of 
> > getting the MPEG stream to play. For now, I'm using a filesystem fifo to pass 
> > the data to xine-lib via a slightly modified fifo input plugin, which is 
> > supplied with xine-lib
> 
> No good idea to make it dependant on a file system ...
> 
> > 
> > But I'm still bothered by the issue of using xine-lib or the xine appliation. 
> > As I had to write a input plugin for xine, I could also add the OSD stuff to 
> > it. Then, any xine-lib frontend could be used to display the output of VDR 
> > (maybe you recall the discussion a few weeks ago).
> > 
> 
> That would be great. For STBs oXine would be a nice solution. And we
> could use the plugins of Xine instead of building extra-plugins for VDR.
> 
> I'd suggest you to just modify the rtsp-plugin for xine and the
> stream(dev)-plugin for VDR. That way you easily get a
> RTSP/RTP-connection.

I think this is a good idea.  I have been meaning myself to look at the
code of the streamdev plugin to see if the live.com RTSP/RTP library
could be used - my feeling is it could be quite easy.

The current http streaming works but has problems - if I try to connect
to my vdr from the other side of my ISDN link I will crash vdr!  TCP is
not the best option for streaming - UDP is the way to go and RTP would
make this standards compliant.

(BTW OT: I have used mplayer to play the streamdev streams but xine
http://myvdr:300/1 fails with xine complaining it does not know how to
demux)

> 
> Please contact Sascha Volkenandt, he'll certainly help you.
> 
> > As I installed my new dish today, I really hope to make more progess on the 
> > plugin in the next few days. But for any reason, I didn't get my Hauppage 
> > Nova-S working when running Linux :-(
> > 
> 
> Which distro do you use and what Problems do you have?
> 
> -- 
> Rene Bartsch
> 
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> Mail:  rene@bartschnet.de
> 
> 



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