Hi all, And a big thanks to all of you guys, I didn't realize that it already works somewhat with a little setup work. I'll have to try it out.
I think I'll start with your solution Metthieu, since I'd like to be able to at least watch live-tv and control the recordings from the tv. Would it be possible for you to send me the (relevant parts of the) local_conf.py file since it seems that would be a great starting point for me aswell. anyhow, thanks agiain juhis Matthieu Weber said: > On Thu 27.05.2004 at 09:00:50PM +1000, Matt McLeod wrote: >> Juha Pahkala wrote: >> > I hope you guys don't mind me asking this, but there's been on and off >> > conversation of dvb support in freevo for a long time. I'd like to >> know if >> > anybody is working on anything related? And if not, if there is >> something >> > done in the past that I could take a look at. > > To Juha: > One thing is that mplayer detects but doesn't display DVB-T subtitles > (and the Finnish TV1 and TV2 channels use subtitles in a separate > stream). I've tried to hack mplayer to do so, I found some code from vdr > which does the subtitle stream decoding, but I don't understand how to > overlay the subtitle over the video in mplayer (the application is > great, but the code is a huge mess IMHO). If someone has had more > success or knows another app that plays DVB with the subtitles, I'm > interested! > > Another problem, is that the transport stream that comes out from the > DVB card has time stamps that don't start at 0 when the recording > starts, so my comercial removal filter in mplayer wouldn't work. One > solution is to remultiplex the streams from TS to PS while recording, > but all the softwares I have found for that (ts2ps, mplex) don't support > subtitle streams (actually, they support 1 video stream and 1 audio > stream and that's all). So for now, only the analog TV recorded with > mencoder fits my needs. > > The DVB driver 1.0.1 works quite well with my 2.4.22 kernel, but I have a > weird bug (IRQ lock or something) when I want to use the driver, so I > need to unload it and reload it before I can watch DVB TV. I haven't had > time to go deeper into this. > > When I want mplayer to play DVB straight, it seems to slow down and the > video becomes jerky, or it just stops and complains about too many > errors in the data stream. If I record the stream on the disk and play > it immediately from the disk with mplayer, it works properly... I've > developed a small program based on tzap that does the recording and > supports files bigger than 2 GB (I use XFS as a filesystem which does not > limit file sizes to 2GB, but the program itself must handle large > files). I suppose I could easily use this one instead of mencoder for > recording DVB, if I add a feature to stop the recording after a given > amount of time, like mencoder does. > > The last problem is that I'd like to properly integrate analog and > digital TV in freevo, so that I can choose (or use priorities to > automatically select) which tuner I use for watching/recording; I'd also > like to implement timeshift with DVB (so that I can pause the TV when > the phone rings). > > Oh yes, I have no time anymore to code all this (that's why I gave up > Freevo hacking, hopefully temporarily), so if someone could lend me > some :) > >> There was a post to this list a few months ago from a chap in the UK >> who'd modified Freevo to work for him with DVB-T. That included a >> fair amount of detail, though I haven't found time to try it myself. >> >> At the moment I'm using Freevo as a front-end for playback, and >> WebVCR+ (with a simple script which calls tzap and pipes the output >> through ts2ps to do the actual recording), and the combination >> works well. It's not programmable from the TV, but I've yet to be >> convinced that this is a major drawback. > > I use this feature every day. Is this enough to convice you that it's > useful? :) I completely replaced my VCR with a dedicated PC, which I use > only to run Freevo. It has no other monitor than a TV, and the keyboard > I use most of the time is the one from my IR remote control. Even my > wife uses the machine :) > > Matthieu > -- > (~._.~) Matthieu Weber - Universit� de Jyv�skyl� (~._.~) > ( ? ) email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( ? ) > ()- -() public key id : 452AE0AD ()- -() > (_)-(_) "Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht (Germain Muller)" (_)-(_) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g > Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. > Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149&alloc_id�66&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. 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