[vdr] Re: ANNOUNCE:vdr-analogTV-0.0.1

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Sascha Volkenandt wrote:
> 
> On Dienstag, 25. Februar 2003 00:23 Andreas Kool wrote:
> > I would like to announce a new plugin "analogTV".
> >
> > The input is from any video4linux (bttv) compatible device,
> > (like analogue tv-cards, (camcorder) grabber cards, webcams or the like)
> > feed it into "mp1e" - a wonderfull *real-time* MPEG-encoder - and display
> > the result on your VDR.
> >
> > Just now you have possibility to view any analogue tv-program, primary
> > usefull for DVB-C users with limited digital channels.
> >
> > The plugin uses the library:
> >   http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zapping/mp1e-1.9.3cvs.tar.bz2?download
> >
> > Please carefully read my README for installation instructions.
> 
> I'm surely going to test that tomorrow, but I'd like to make a little
> suggestion for that:
> 
> Why don't you make the analog source available with a cDevice derivation? This
> would make it possible to have a VDR working with an analog+dxr3 card like a
> normal VDR, for example. Also it would be possible to record and cut the data
> with the native VDR interface. Additional channels could be provided via
> channels.conf with a device providing a special source.

Yes, that's what I thought you would have done when I saw your announcement.
I didn't look into it at first, but after Sascha's posting I just did so.
Implementing this as a cPlayer isn't the right (tm) way to do this.
You should definitely derive from cDevice here. Take a look at the 'sky'
plugin that comes with VDR. That way your analog source is just another
device. You could even make full use of VDR's channel handling, recording
facilities - everyting! I could see that you are doing your own key handling
to switch channels and stull. Gee, that's not how this was meant to be.

Just my 2 cents...

Klaus
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