[vdr] Re: DVB over emu10k1 !?

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Die, 2003-05-13 um 18.28 schrieb Onno:
> 
> 
> Rene Bartsch schrieb:
> > Am Die, 2003-05-13 um 12.41 schrieb Onno:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>We "only" need the stream from bitstreamout.
> >>If one would directly incorporate liba52 into it, you
> >>would stick to OSS and it would probably be illegal.
> > 
> > 
> > What would be illegal? liba52 is GPL, isn't it?
> 
> uncompiled its as legal as a book about chemicals suitable
> for bombs, but put into use .....
> 
> For real details ask Dr. Werner Fink from Suse GmbH, who made the
> bitstreamout plugin, states that he didn'timplement decoding, because
> of the uncertain legal status
> 
> > 
> > 
> >>Also other things mplayer would make possible
> >>(like lirc volumecontrol,audiofilters) would'n be available.
> >>
> > 

You do know, MPlayer uses liba52, don't you? -> Remove it from your
system at once! ;o)

> > 
> > You need a real A/V-soft-backend for VDR.
> 
> Me? Why do you think, and what comes to your mind when you talk
> of a A/V-soft-backend ?
> 
> I _need_ only very few things, but i _like_ to have everything controled
> by remote's and wired up until everything can be used without
> re-plugging manualy.
> 
> So vdr is my no-1 front-end, while mplayer can fill most of the
> little gaps which might remain, the rest is handeled by shell scripts
> and little helper tools we all know ,
> (mjpegtools, dvb driver tools, cat, echo, grep, sed, find,...)
> 
> So thats why i ask, what do you have in mind when talking of a
> A/V-soft-backend (real question)?
> 

A plugin with player-classes doing everything the MPEG-decoder of a
DVB-S does, but by XV/X11/SDL and ALSA/OSS.

Rene



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