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
Yes, right now timeshifting is hardcoded to use mplayer for playback. timeshift.py should be changed to use the plugin system to get a handle on a player then any player could be used as long as it impliments the same python interface.
However, I think the easiest thing to do here would be to find or make a program that you can run (if there is nothing available maybe you can do it in python!) as a VLC and collect the UDP packets and write an mpeg2 stream to stdout. Then at the very least you can modify TIMESHIFT_ENCODE_CMD in your local_conf.py to use this command. If you find or write something in python it could probably be integrated using plugins.
Hope this helps, -Rob
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