On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:21:40AM +0100, Stefan Ohrhallinger wrote:
> hi,
> to implement a time-shift function in an existing tv viewer (i.e.
> xawtv), one would need to constantly log the video into a stream, that
> can be played by another process without closing the file.

it's in my todo plan - but currently there are more interesting goal
for me.

> 
> - which codec supported by libavifile would be usable for that purpose
> (divx apparently isn't)? (must support streaming and index search)

DivX will have no problems with this...

> - is it possible to open the video access (v4l) nonblocking, so when
> using vcr for example (or other program), it's still possible to start
> xawtv (or other program) and still be able to connect to video?


it must be supported bz v4l device itself - suposedlz there are some plans
to support tjhis in new v4l device driver - but this is probablz
not the right list for this.

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