Hi,
I also try to use VDR with freevo. Currently, vdr runs on my freevo box as a
daemon and I use the tvtime plugin (tv plugin) to view the /dev/video data (I
use a full featured dvb card).
I have the same wishlist as you and especially:
- being able to start recordings from freevo gui
- generate fxd file for a recorded show
- batch converting recorded files to divx or what else (mpeg2 is good, but
a bit huge)
- being able to drive vdr with my freevo remote control (currently I use
two different remotes: one to control vdr and the other one for freevo).
If I can help you to develop anything, or to test, or what else... I know 2 or
3 other users interested by these features (and who can contribute too I
think).
Sincerely,
Stéphane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-devel] VDR integration
> Hey,
>
> > Yes, I'm resurrecting vdrpylib:
> >
> >
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/freevo/freevo/WIP/RobShortt/lib/vdrpylib/
> >
> >
> > This is an interface to VDR using SVDRP and VDR files if available on
> > the system (epg, timers, recordings...).
> >
> Yes. The lib is very nice. I already enhanced Ove's plugin with SVDRP
> support. For connection data i added several VDR_SVDRP_xxxx variables to
> local_conf.py.
>
> We need to think about a proper OO design, though. Your svdrpylib is
> already object oriented and has a couple of
> functions to get, for example, timers, epg or channel data back from
> vdr. These types differ unfortunately completly with those
> from freevos EPG/Tvguide implementation. So we need either a wrapper to
> construct the tvguide from svdrpylib objects or a bunch of proper
> subclasses.
> IMHO the subclass solution would be cleaner. What do you think?
>
> >
> > -usage of mplayer. Better yet, I want an MPEG PS from VDR. This
> > should be easily handled by most programs. We'd also like to be able
> > to timeshift live TV, this should make it easier.
> >
> Yeah. I remember we talked in IRC about this topic. On of my most
> important "must haves" is client/server streaming. So i suggest to use
> VDR's streamserver Plugin as a foundation to get the needed MPEG stream.
> Using this we could also overcome vdr's "only 1 svdrp client allowed"
> problem. (read on for more thoughts)
>
> > BTW have you tried using TVTime with the /dev/videoX device created by
> > the DVB driver?
>
> Sure. Its working like a charm. For owners of full featured cards, this
> is the best way to get a picture from the card. The complete mpeg
> decoding is done by the dvb card. Hence i started to use SVDRP to
> communicate to VDR opposed to Ove's approach of using XINE events.
>
> >
> >> - manage scheduled and finished recordings in freevo's gui
> >
> >
> > We can interface with the timers.conf to schedule recordings.
> > Actually we could still maintain the schedule totally in freevo and
> > have a recording plugin to add a timer for "now" at the time of
> > recording. We can get a list of VDR recordings (finished ones) from
> > SVDRP/vdrpylib or even have VDR's recording directory in TV_RECORD_DIR
> > or VIDEO_ITEMS.
>
> Yes. Thats what i would like to have. Keep the OO design in mind, though.
>
> >
> >> - convert recordings to divx or other format using freevo's gui and
> >> propably the vdr-convert package.
> >
> >
> > Are also are / will be Freevo plugins for transcoding / compressing
> > video.
> >
> Agreed.
>
> >
> > Personally, I don't think there should be a "vdr mode" per se. I
> > think if things are configured properly and there are Freevo plugins
> > for VDR activated it should Just Work, meaning it will integrate VDR
> > information / channels / recordings into the existing Freevo interfaces.
> >
> Exactly. One uses just the TV section to access VDR transparently.
>
> > I have some other ideas to follow in our quest here:
> >
> > -Look at the Xine plugin for VDR. That plugin creates some fifos for
> > Xine <-> VDR communication and MPEG data. The VDR side also uses that
> > plugin as its primary display device... _very_ _cool_ IMO... I don't
> > use the tv-out on my DVB card at all. Perhaps we could talk to the
> > vdr-xine author and learn the interface. The VDR side could be used
> > for lots more than Xine. It might be easy to develop an mplayer input
> > plugin for it.
> >
> I'm in touch with that guy. The sourcecode is also easy to read. I didnt
> take,however, a look at the lowlevel guts yet.
>
> >
> > -Look at streamdev. That VDR plugin is actually two plugins,
> > streamdev-server and streamdev-client. There are at least two
> > interfaces there, the VTP (Video Transport Protocol) and HTTP. The
> > HTTP interface is the easiest to use but there are other advantages to
> > the VTP interface using the streamdev-client plugin. You can have a
> > VDR machine running with no DVB card using the streamdev-client plugin
> > to provide its "device" for input.
> >
> Combining a remote streamdev server with a local VDR process is a ideal
> combination. I use a local vdr with XINE as viewer, for example. If we
> can get vdr's xine-plugin to interface with mplayer, we're done.
> This has IMHO several advantages compared to the "raw" http connection mode:
> - the local vdr is much more responsive to commands
> - forward/rewind/jumping without any problems
> - metadata like recording info and such is visible in the vdr osd
> - same look-and-feel at both the client and the server
>
> So we would need 2 SVDRP connections for client/server mode. One for the
> server to set/get timers, EPG data and recording metadata and one for
> the local client to control the live TV mode and the record player.
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Thomas
>
>
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