Hi!
I'm building myself a streaming client without any DVB-cards. I have it up and running now and everything works except for teletext subtitles - I have been searching a little, and I don't know what to think, some places says it it shouldn't work, and on some places it says it should. In the HISTORY of streamdev-cvs it says something about a major rewrite and that VDR shouldn't be able to see any difference between a budget card and streamdev-client
Anyone that have a hint for me about what to do?
vdr-1.3.36 ttxtsubs-0.05 (with a some patches) streamdev-cvs from today softdevice-cvs
Same on server.
When I'm running VDR on the client I get lots of this at the console: --< SNIP >-- DEMUX DEVICE 1: : No such file or directory ttxtsubs: Error: GetTtxtInfo failed --< SNAP >--
Best regards, Lars Fredriksson
En/na Lars Fredriksson ha escrit:
The ttxtsubs plugin opens the device directly (but just to know the teletext pid and the page to show), so it won't work. Your only option is to use the patch that introduces manual selection and select the page manually.
Bye
En/na Lars Fredriksson ha escrit:
http://users.tkk.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/vdr-ttxtsubs-0.0.5-soppatykki-edition.diff...
Bye
Hi!
Ttxtsubs with the soppatykki patch works great, thanks! I think it even saves the page for every channel individually, am I right?
But now I have som further questions that I would ebe really happy to get some anwer on!
How do you out there that uses streamdev-client handles the video directory? I have been thinking of mounting the server video-directory to the client also uing NFS - that shouldn't be any problem, or? Because I'm not using the server to watch TV on and I don't have any plugins that's the same on server and client I can't see any problem (well, if the client and the server starts to record the same program at excactly the same time I can think I get some trouble maybe).
And that's my second question - it isn't prossible that every recording that the client starts in fact records on the server directly? Because when I start a recording on the client I cant switch to any other channel than the one I'm recording - I have free cards in the server.
Thanks for any answer, Lars Fredriksson
Thus spake Luca Olivetti (luca@ventoso.org):
En/na Lars Fredriksson ha escrit:
Did you consider using xine-network on the client (and the xine-network plugin on the server) instead of a full-fledged vdr? This would also neatly solve the txt-subtitles problem (no need to manually select the page since the server *has* the dvb card accessible).
Bye
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Does anyone happen to know any RTFM resources or STFW pointers for this setup? The best one I've so far googled up is:
http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Kanotix_-_Streaming-Server_mit_Xine-Pl... http://mitglied.lycos.de/peterweber69/xine/xine.htm
but it is all in German and I do understand much of it but not all.
The actual installation seems to so far be a hodge-podge of different patches to all kinds of applications and hardcoded versions of software and a lot of work to get up and running, so is it worth trying this approach? We don't really need that much interactivity at all, ie VDR menus etc are not really needed. I basically only want to play back recordings or the thin client.
En/na Jan Ekholm ha escrit:
Peter's page is also in english, however I prefer this patch http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/24886
The xine plugin itself is really well commented, everything is in english, you just have to carefully follow the steps outlined in the INSTALL file.
The problem is you have to patch and compile xine (and patch the plugin itself+the already patched xine if you want the network functionality). Once that is done it works fairly well (with some occasional problem but streamdev has its own set of problems). I've used both and now I exclusively use vdr-xine over the network.
Bye
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Jan Ekholm -
Lars Fredriksson -
Luca Olivetti