[vdr] Re: vdr, dxr3, nova-t, no video out, etc.

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Keil" <tk@commedia-group.com>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:53 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: vdr, dxr3, nova-t, no video out, etc.


> > > decoder? I don't know if I'm getting something wrong here, but I only
> > > watch with Tuxview on my monitor, so strictly speaking I wouldn't need
a
> > > full featured card, would I?
> >
> > You need a full featured card for tuxview. Tuxview reads from the v4l
> > interface and only displays what has already been decoded in hardware.
> >
> > You need a software mpeg decoder like mplayer or xine, plus you cannot
> > comfortably tune unless you build a gui front end for the command line
tools
> > for channel switching.
> Ahhh!
>
> I begin to understand.
> This all sounds reasonable to me!
>
> I'm curious now:
> Would it, hypothetically thinking, be possible to software decode the
stream and then watch then with a v4l application, say something like (not
an actualy command) "cat /dev/dvbstream>mplayer -|vdr" ?

The best solution would be to directly integrate a MPlayer-plugin into VDR.
Currently you can use the stream-plugin for live-watching and use MPlayer
instead of FFMPEG. But as you can't deliver the OSD to MPlayer, you would
need to compile VDR with DEBUG_OSD=1 and have the OSD on another tty.

Rene



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