On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:05:09PM +0200, Markus Ecker wrote:
> I was reading through the streamdev source code today, and allthough I don't
> understand it a 100% yet,I think I can extend it to support the SageTV
> recorder plugin protocol.
>

Nice!

> If anyone wants to write a VDR plugin to support the device directly, I can
> provide network dumps of the communication between the extender and the
> server.
>

Ok. Can you put some dumps online? Or if you don't have web/ftp space for
that, I think I can fix something..

I could take a look at those dumps..

-- Pasi

> Markus
>
> 2008/7/18 Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:52:53PM +0200, Markus Ecker wrote:
> > > Dear Pasi,
> > > Out of the box, it only works together with the SageTV server software.
> > > The GUI is rendered on the server, the device acts as a dumb terminal.
> > >
> > > However, they released some source code, and I just found some more
> > > technical details on the MythTV wiki:
> > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/SageTV_HD_Extender
> > >
> >
> > Yep.. someone with access to hd_extender should do some packet capturing
> > and/or tracing to figure out how the communication between sagetv server
> > and
> > hd_extender is done..
> >
> > I'm not interested in using SageTV software, but I'd like to use this
> > device with
> > VDR.. if possible. And possibly help developing a vdr plugin :)
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
> > > Markus.
> > >
> > > 2008/7/16 Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:20:27PM +0200, Markus Ecker wrote:
> > > > > Torgeir,
> > > > > It's this box: http://sagetv.com/hd_extender.html. Not sure about
> > the
> > > > > hardware, but it runs Linux.
> > > > >
> > > > > From the spec:
> > > > > Video format supported: MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264 up to 1080p, AVI,
> > VOB,
> > > > > WMV9/VC-1 up to 1080p
> > > > >
> > > > > I run it at the moment with a dubious shell script doing the DVB
> > > > recording,
> > > > > and the picture is very nice and fluid.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hmm.. is there any way to send video streams to this device without
> > running
> > > > sagetv atm?
> > > >
> > > > Looks like a nice device:)
> > > >
> > > > -- Pasi
> > > >
> >

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