[vdr] Re: vdr-xine over network (proof-of-concept)

[Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@desy.de>]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 syrius.ml@no-log.org wrote:

Hi,

> I'm currently testing your changes to use xine over the network.
> It works quite well.
Thanks, but don't look into the source.

> It seems the Pause function doesn't work anymore.
For me it isn't working with FIFO-vdr-xine as well... Don't know and care
why currently.

> I haven't tried to launch 2 xine clients, i guess it won't work.
Your guess is right, just because it was a quick'n'dirty hack.

> But since vdr-xine now works over the network, i'm pretty sure this
> feature would become useful :)
> Could the video be multicasted rather than anycasted ? (would it
> difficult to implement ?)
Maybe the streamdev plugin should provide such thing?

For now (and for me, as I didn't understand the whole thing about 
vdr-xine and vdr-plugins in general yet) the task is to remove the FIFO 
stuff completely and use sockets (even for localhost) instead.

Unfortunately there is no public CVS for vdr-xine, then it would be much 
easier to have user tests latest changes in such field. I asked Reinhard 
already about that and he starts thinking about it :).

thanks for testing and reporting,
Patrick.

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