On Mon, March 10, 2008 9:08 pm, Duncan Webb wrote: > Evan Hisey wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Stephen Rowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>>> Stephen >> >>> It might work for ivtv, it doesn't work for DVB ;) I should have made >>> that >>> a bit clearer! A lot of this is made better with the dvbstreamer >>> plug-in > > >> Good point I don't use DVB (yet). > > Me neither, DVB is not available here. > >>> but fast forward and rewind do not work, at least not in the sense >>> that >>> any end user would be expecting, fast forward does not mean "skip >>> 30seconds" and rewind does not mean "skip back 30 seconds". Fast >>> forward >>> and rewind are a continuous operation, most PVR's support this at >>> multiple >>> speeds from 2x -> 16x in both directions. I would like to see that in >>> Freevo (I understand this may well depend on xine / mplayer, but it >>> still >>> something I would like to see). > > IIRC this is a technical problem. MPlayer and Xine can play all sort of > video media where as you PVR sticks to MPEG-2 (and maybe MPEG-4). > > Some of the formats don't support reverse play so I think that they have > taken the easy option and don't implement reverse playback.
I'm still working on my updated live pause plugin for DVB and a new version should be available shortly (I know I said that before :-) ). I've got the new improved ringbuffer working now and am just finishing off the details. I think I may have a solution for the fast forward and rewind, it will take some time to implement though as I'm not familiar with MPEG2 video encoding. Basically I intend to extract the I-frames from a GOP and send that to the player, with a bit of fiddling this should hopefully allow me to do both fast forward and rewind. Don't hold your breath this will probably take some time. >>> Other PVR function includes things like On Screen Display of current >>> channel while watching TV, moving through channels on screen with >>> now/next >>> appearing at the bottom of the screen to pick another channel without >>> having to stop viewing the program you are watching. And of course the >>> infamous "red button" functionality for DVB. > > >> Having never had these features I never missed them, but they do sound >> pretty useful. > > Jason has done something like this, at least I think so, with the bmovl > plug-in and a mplayer patch. I tried to install it once but wasn't sure > against which revision of mplayer the patch was for. > I have a way to get an osd on the screen when using vlc, so I should be able to fix that annoyance. As for the redbutton there is a project on sourceforge to do this, may take a look and see what can be done with it. Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
