[vdr] Re: Network proxy for DVD, lirc and lcd

[Sascha Volkenandt <lists@magoa.net>]

At Montag, 30. Juni 2003 11:25 Oliver Brandt wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. I'll try to get my hands on that article. Pretty
> much what I'm trying to do is to not just centralize the DVB-cards on a
> server but also to use the cpu-power of the server for decoding divX
> etc. To do so has a few advantages:
> -When they come out with new compression techniques that will need a lot
>  more cpu then todays divX I don't have to upgrade all the clients with
>  expensive silent hardware, but only the server with cheap mainstream
>  components.

I was thinking of a client/server solution based on mplayer.sh. The client's 
mplayer.sh could connect to a server and let it do the recoding. This way 
you could use the normal mplayer PlugIn for recoding, apart from the 
modified shell script. This way I could completely abandon the 
mplayercluster PlugIn (which indeed doesn't work very stable, and for which 
I have no need anymore, so I won't put my time in developing it any 
further...) which is (besides of the network code) a copy of the 
mplayer-PlugIn's menu code.

Maybe someone could write a solution based on perl or maybe evel plain bash. 
If I really got a lot of spare time maybe I might try putting up on that as 
well (but as I'm currently pretty busy investigating streamdev behaviour on 
two-card systems as I got hold of a 2nd card for a month, that'll be pretty 
unlikely in the next time)

Greetings,
Sascha



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