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[vdr] Re: Composite / S-VHS input ?
Gavin Hamill wrote:
>
> This occured to me the other day, and to me it seems quite logical - I'm
> interested in opinions :)
>
> VDR was designed to support DVB broadcasts only, and many people have build
> Personal Video Recorder units around it. Many plugins have been developed to
> extend the usefulness of the project to playing MP3/DVD/VCD, etc.
>
> However, how feasible would a plugin for video4linux cards be? This would
> allow people to record whatever happened to be coming into the
> composite/S-VHS input of their analogue capture card, in the same way as
> tuning a TV to 'The Satellite Channel' does for most homes at present.
>
> It would also permit easy transfer of existing VHS / camcorder recordings to
> MPEG and perhaps subsequently to CD or DVD-ROM. Perhaps even Firewire could
> be incorporated here?!
>
> Would there be much work in piping the MPEG program stream output from a
> package like mp1e or ffmpeg into VDR's own 'Recordings' menu?
>
> I'd imagine a basic implementation to be produced via two items on the
> 'Commands' menu - 'Start external' and 'Stop external'
>
> I can't see any problems with converting the PS into a PES ".vdr" file using
> standard dvb-tools nor generating a placeholder for the summary.vdr, but how
> about the index.vdr which appears to be a binary file of indeterminate format
> (I'm not a C programmer, sorry! :)
>
> Like I say, I'm open to ideas, but I'm only a Perl hacker as far as coding
> goes...
I'm doing something similar with the MPEG2 encoder card (see http://linuxtv.org/mpeg2/kfir.xml).
I use it to connect my Sky Digibox to VDR, and it works pretty good. I'll soon release
the necessary VDR plugin, but before I do so I'll need to implement the "unique channel ID"
stuff to make sure the EPG data is assigned to the correct channels.
Klaus
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