On Saturday 23 April 2005 14:08, Hans Meine wrote:
I am using a single ivtv card as TV source, and no vdr (but xmltv).
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I found that config/channels.py contains tvp = plugin.getbyname(plugin.TV, True) where the "True" refers to the (misspelled) parameter "multiple_choices" which is used to allow multiple "plugin.TV" plugins. However, three of four TV plugins are added with "multiple_choices" set to 0/False:
Looking again, the situation simply seems to be that xine is the only TV plugin whose API is up-to-date, right?
Yes, that's correct.
I saw that xine.py is able to handle "ivtv" devices, calling xine with "pvr:/...". Is this the way to go for me, or should I try converting mplayer.py to the new API?
If you decide to spruce up the mplayer plugin we'll have to add some code back (into the right place for the new architecture) for channel changing for V4L2 devices because mplayer isn't ivtv-aware.
I am also interested in what Rob Shortt uses; AFAIK he uses ivtv and the latest Freevo, too?
Right now my system is using only xine (for regular video and TV) although I rarely watch live TV.
It would be great if you could try out the xine tv plugin with ivtv and also play around with xine and see if you can get it to change the channel on its own through a slave command - that should get you by in the short term. If xine can't change the channel for ivtv then we may still need to add the V4L2 channel changing code back into the right place, in the Player inheritable code I think.
In the longer term I have some ideas that I need to run by the xine developers for a timeshifting plugin not directly associated with any particular input type (like pvr:// is to ivtv). I'm pretty sure that what I'm thinking fits into their architecture and that I could impliment it myself. I would like to timeshift any stream based input, I'll describe this more in a future email.
ttyl, -Rob
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