On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:05:45 +0300 Marko Mäkelä marko.makela@iki.fi wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:40:41AM +0200, Patrick Boettcher wrote:
vdr-fbfe is connecting over network to a vdr running on a full machine. No need for streamdev.
This looks interesting. Am I right assuming that the full machine will not need any video output?
Yes, you are right. Vdr is running like a daemon.
Can vdr-fbfe be used for editing recordings on the RPi, or is there too much latency when using 10Mb/s Ethernet to connect to an old VDR server?
I'd not recommend a 10Mb/s. Fast Ethernet (100Mb/s) should be the minimum.
How about using vdr-fbfe to connect on a vdr instance running on the same RPi machine?
Yes.
Is it technically possible to for example pause a live SD TV stream and copy some files over the Ethernet at the same time?
Which scenario? VDR on RPI or on a remote? If VDR on a remote host, IIRC, pausing causes very few bandwidth as only a still image is displayed.
The pause is global to all connected clients to this vdr-remote. Yes, you can connect several clients to one xineliboutput-vdr-host but they will all have the same channel and OSD appearances displayed - IOW, they are not independent.
The single USB bus on the RPi would in that case need to handle the traffic of a hard disk adapter as well as the DVB dongle and the built-in Ethernet controller.
Yes. IMHO, it is better to use RPI only as client with no harddisk.
-- Patrick.