On Thursday, December 9, 2004, 09:53, Paul wrote: > All,
> my freevo box is an EPIA MII6000 using a PVR350 for capture and baseboard
> video for TV out. So I have mpeg compression on the TV card and mpeg
> hardware decompression on the motherboard using xine. The machine is too
> slow to play a TV mpeg stream over the CPU using mplayer.
> So I need to hack together a plugin that does TV playing over xine.
> Looking at the existing xine and mplayer tv plugins that should be doable.
> I can do the quick fix allowing TV playing using a named pipe from
> /dev/vide0 to xine.
> However when I am going to make the effort I would like to add
> timeshifting in it as well. I have plenty of disk space to play with so I
> can cat /dev/video to a bufferfile and have xine play from that.
> Did some tests from the commandline and this works UNTIL one tries to fast
> forward beyond the end of the bufferfile. At that point xine stops the
> playback. Are there any ideas on how to stop this from happening?
Well xine already got a input_pvr plugin built in especially for the
pvr150/250/350 cards and it includes timeshifting aswell ;-)
Got a working plugin although i don't think it works with the latest
freevo releases. You probably have to hack it a bit. xine_tv_plugin
attached.
/Robert
ivtv_xine_tv.py
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