[vdr] Re: Help Requested from the Dxr3 plugin maker and others C/C++ coders

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

Philippe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had a look at your plugin last days,
> 
> The Dxr3 card is based on the undocumented em8300 sigmadesigns chip.
> A couple of days ago, a friend of mine gave me another sigmadesign card
> Which is based on the em84xx chip.
> 
> I found many tools for this card under Linux :
>  - The Documentation of the chip
>  - The Linux API
>  - And some examples.
> It wasn't difficult to find this tools, everything is on the SD website.
> I just had to get the Netstream2000 SDK for linux.
> 
> I tried to make a sinple MPEG2 player with their doc and everything
> works fine.
> That part wasn't really difficult, I just had to cut and paste pieces of
> code to make it work.
> 
> This card seems to feature OSD. I didn't try it yet.
> 
> I was wondering if you can help me to build another plugin based on this
> card.
> I don't want you to write a specific plugin, I just need some
> informations :
>  - How can I start to write the device ?
>  - Which part of the code is mandatory to have the display (without OSD
> etc ...)
>  - ...
> 
> My problem is that I can't figure out how to start.
> I would like to know if it's possible to start like this :
>  - create cEm84Player
>  - patch vdr code to attach cEm84Player instead of cDvbPlayer to display
> the video over this new card

You shouldn't have to create a cEm84Player - implementing a cEm84Device should
be enough.

Klaus

>  - ... and so on ...
> or if I have to do everything before starting to test it :
>  - create cEm84Device
>  - create cEm84Player
>  - ...
> 
> Expecting some help from C/C++ gods like you to know how to start coding
> this cDevice and how to debug it.
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