[vdr] Re: cReceivers in plugins

[Sascha Volkenandt <lists@magoa.net>]

On Freitag, 9. Mai 2003 12:40 Jan Ekholm wrote:
> I'm reading the plugin guide and looking at the little example cReceiver
> subclass there. It inherits cThread, which I find a bit weird. The data
> received in Receive() should be buffered and given to some thread for
> processing, but must a custom receiver also inherit cThread?
>
> At least my receiver now manages to break the stream on the primary
> device. :) Which is a bit weird, as it shouldn't even do anything unless
> there is data on the PID it is interested in? At least looking at
> cDevice::Action() the receiver shouldn't interfere in any way until it
> gets data on its PID and Receive() gets called. Need to read up a bit more
> on the VDR source.

I guess your cReceiver-Object does not yet inherit the cThread class? What 
does your PlugIn do in the Receive()-Call? Given the assumption that you 
don't use a separate thread to process the data, I'd say that call takes a 
bit too long.

Greetings,
Sascha Volkenandt


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