[Freevo-devel] vlc tv plugin

[Tristan Tarrant]

Dear Freevo devs,

first of all thanks for all of your hard work on Freevo. I've started using it a short while ago, and I think it's great.

I have a special need, however: I receive TV channels in MPEG2 format over UDP multicast using VLC. Over the weekend I will attempt to create a TV plugin to support playing/recording using VLC, which I believe will not be too hard.
One thing I've noticed, however, is that timeshifting is hardcoded to use mplayer. As I would like to implement that too using vlc, I was wondering if anybody can give me a short description of how timeshifting is implemented

Thanks in advance

Tristan