2007/11/13, Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>:

> Are there any problems in submitting the needed patch to the mainstream
> xine-lib distribution?

The problem is that small parts of the patch would break binary
compatibility in xine-lib-1.1.x. This is no problem if a distribution
decides to include the patch and recompiles all applications which use
xine-lib-1.1.x.

I still do provide those patches as not all people are willing to switch
to xine-lib-1.2 (hg) which is still in development, contains the patches
and therefore works out of the box.

This is a very good news. As soon as 1.2 version will be stable it will be much more easy to use vdr-xine.
Picture quality seems better to me in vdr-xine than in xineliboutput, so I'll be happy to go back to vdr-xine, I just didn't want to do all the patching anymore (expecially because it was needed both on client and servers in my networked enviroment). The new network feature is a big step forward (finding the network-patch for every new release was a pain), but xine-lib patch was still needed...

Does it mean that a linux distro that include xine-lib-1.2 will be able to connect to a networked VDR-xine installation without the need of anything else apart from xine?

> I only have Skystar2/Airstai2 budget cards, so it's not an issue for me.
> A feature that allows to watch different channels on clients at the same
> time (without using multiple vdr installations and streamdev) would
> definetely make me switch back to vdr-xine :)

And you wouldn't mind applying a huge patch on VDR to achieve this goal?

This feature is so interesting that I certainly wouldn't mind, even if it would a very good feature to be included in the 1.5 vdr release... :)