[vdr] Re: Writing a cDevice plugin

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

Reinhard Nissl wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> >>>>I'm writing a plugin for playback by using xine. OSD and playback of existing
> >>>>recordings seem to work.
> >>>>
> >>>>My problem is, that I don't know, how to get VDR to supply the live stream of
> >>>>my Hauppage Nova-S to my plugin.
> >>>
> >>>Since I suppose your cDevice derived class doesn't overwrite the ProvidesChannel()
> >>
> >>That's correct.
> >>
> >>>function, VDR should always automatically go into transfer mode when you switch
> >>>to a channel that your Novs-S provides. There should be nothing extra you would
> >>
> >>At least I can switch channels and VDR doesn't complain about "Channel not
> >>available" as it did some days ago, when I didn't load the dvb drivers.
> >>
> >>>have to do.
> >>
> >>But I do not get any calls to PlayVideo(). Is it OK, that my primary DVB
> >>interface is 2? Without loading the dvb drivers it was 1.
> >
> > Your primary device must be the device provided by the plugin.
> 
> I think, this is true, because when selecting interface 1, I no longer see the
> OSD.
> 
> > When you switch to an actual channel, a "transfer mode" thread should
> > be started automatically.
> 
> How can I prove this?

Check the log file. There should be a message like "Transfer thread started".

Klaus


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