[vdr] Re: PVR 250 Plugin Request/Help needed

[Andreas Kool <akool@akool.de>]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:56:47AM +0200, Andre Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've bought a Hauppauge PVR250 card yesterday for my VDR System to have
> RTL, Pro7 etc. in my VDR since i only have a cable provider here.
>
> I thought, that the analogTV plugin does support the Card, because i
> read it in the CVS logs. Reading the README again i noticed that the PVR
> Support in the analogTV is broken.
>
> I mailed Andreas Kool, the writer of the analogTV plugin, but since
> Andreas dont have a PVR card, he cant really support the PVR in his
> plugin.
>
> Since my programming knowledge is very limited, i was wondering if
> anyone would be smart enough to help out here. I personally think, that
> it cant be so hard to write such a plugin, because we already get an
> TS-MPEG2 Stream from the PVR card. We only have to pipe the output into
> VDR.
>
> VDR carries the "sky" plugin, which i think is not very different from
> what i (and maybe others?) want to do with the PVR card.
>
> So, if anyone is able to help out here (maybe Klaus?), please leave a
> message on the list. Thank you.

I'm sorry Andre, but the "sky" plugin is IMHO not an option here,
because the "ivtv" driver is *unable* to produce MPEG-TS (i dont know
if this is a bug or feature of the driver or the card, but it's really
the showstopper!)

Do you have tried the analogTV-plugin with

   Encoder: "PVR PES"

??

> Greetings,
> -------------
> Andre Neumann

Ciao,
Andreas
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Andreas Kool (akool<nospam>@</nospam>gmx.de * http://akool.bei.t-online.de)


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