Re: a different kind of video recorder?

[Marcus O.C. Metzler <mocm@netcologne.de>]

Carsten Koch writes:
 > 
 > It should not be too hard to extend Klaus' Program
 > to be able to display the video in an X window.
 > 
He may be able the gtvscreen  widget, which provides the display part
for gVideo and is supposed to be used by a variety of programs. gVideo
actually started out as a simple program to test the gtvscreen widget
and grew a lot when all the dvb stuff was added.
 > 
 > > For recording i thought of using the "at" and "cron" daemons, think we do not
 > > need to invent the wheel again ;-)
 > 
 > Of course this is easily possible right now, but you 
 > would gain very little by it. Klaus' vdr program has a
 > smaller CPU usage than the cron daemon.
 > 
 > 
 > > BTW, does the Siemens card support simultanous record/playback for different
 > > sources - e.g. recording one program while viewing a pre-recorded file?
 > 
 > AFAIK, the card kind-of-supports it (DMA can only go 
 > one way at a time), but the current driver does not.
The card was never ment to support it. Ralph tries very hard to do it,
but I guess it will never work as smooth as one would like it to.

 > 
 > > I have probably not the time and experience to write such a program all on my
 > > own, but i would like to help programing if someone or more would participate...
 > 
 > Give Klaus' software a try.
 > The more I use it, the more I like it.
 > As I said earlier in another threat: it would make a lot 
 > more sense  to work together improving Klaus' video 
 > recorder rather than starting another one.
 > 
Maybe we should start some project to do that, or try to fit it
together with the oms project which is supposed to become a universal
media player for linux. 

Marcus

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