On 21/01/10 04:20, Rolf Ahrenberg wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Nicolas Huillard wrote:
For those who don't spare some time digging on the website:
- this is an Ethernet device: antenna in (single, dual), ethernet out
- no storage inside the box
- they provide an LGPL library "libhdhomerun": include hdhomerun.h
and/or hdhomerun_device.h to use the top level API
I'd make another 'pseudo' DVB input device plugin for this based on the current IPTV plugin. A quick look at the API reveals that you could dynamically add necessary number of provided tuners as done in IPTV plugin. You could also implement a channel scan functionality as done in IPTV plugin. I quess its' UDP/RTP transport is already compatible with the one implemented in IPTV plugin. The only requirement from core VDR would be the pluginparam patch (or similar) functionality.
My thoughts exactly. I am pretty sure this would work as is with vdr-iptv. I had a quick look at some of the US versions and it looks interesting. I got vdr-iptv working with an external cable box and a pvr card, so using a script we could send off whatever card was necessary to change channels and bring in the input. The downside would probably be a long channel change time.
More native support could be good.. However, I wonder what the advantage would be to having this over an internal pci dvb card or even a usb one? The pci card is surely cheaper, and the functionality is already there in VDR?