[vdr] Re: Announce: DVBVideoLAN

[Markus Winkler <markus.winkler@gmxpro.de>]

Am Fre, 2002-06-28 um 20.57 schrieb Rene Bartsch:
> Am Mon, 2002-06-24 um 18.44 schrieb Markus Winkler:
> 
> > > > > I have a server with three low-budgets. So I do not have a OSD. I'll be
> > > > > able to tune primary DVB by vdradmin, but are there any possibilities to
> > > > > start streaming without OSD?
> > > > Hm, not yet.I didn't think on no-osd-cards. Sorry. Perhaps i will extend
> > > > the telnet feature of vdr.?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Would be great if you do it with SVDRP. The features could be added to
> > > VDRADMIN then - just click a link in VDRADMIN while browsing program or
> > > 'what's now' and see liveTV, DVD, SVCD (in VDRADMIN there could be a
> > > link to the RTP-ports. If the MIME-Types are specified well, the browser
> > > would automatically start the media-player (IE + MediaPlayer + Elecard
> > > PlugIn on Windoze, Mozilla/Netscape + Plugger + MPlayer on Linux/UNIX)
> 
> > i put that on my todo-list
> 
> I thougt about it. The best and simpliest solution to implement and have
> as many options as possible should be a simple SVDRP-command:
> 
> 	"stream [channel] [multicast-address] start/stop"
> 
> This would make it possible for any application to select channel and
> address for the stream. Please use an ID for channel which is known by
> vdradmin. So two simple start/stop-buttons can be added in the
> programm-overview and there won't be problems for vdradmin to gather the
> multicast-address to hand it over to a media-player (in case the address
> is already in use you could return a usual error-code on SVDRP.
> 
> When do you think you approximately have time to implement this feature?
> (It's the only missing to build a low-budget-only-server ...)
I don't really know that right now. I'm very busy @work and with my
diploma thesis. @the moment, I'm thinking about a windows-client with a
built in mpeg2demuxer and decoder. I don't trust the direct show
caboodle any more.

I'll keep you informed.

Markus
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> Rene
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