On Wednesday 12 October 2005 15:11, Luc Gallant wrote: > >Why don't you write a V4L driver for this device? Then any V4L > >compliant software like MythTV would work with it without > >modification? > > >I think this may have some resources in that direction: > >http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/ > > This is an idea I originally thought of. There are a few issues I had > thought > about too, that hopefully people can help me with: > > 1. My main goal is to use mythtv for pvr purposes. In the data coming > over the > network, there will be sets of data, and within those sets, > subchannels. So, > from my understanding, the driver I would write would map those sets > and > subchannels to regular channels as we know them . For example, if > there are 4 > sets with 5 subchannels in each, that would make 20 channels. The user > could > then go from channel 1-20 or 300-320, whatever. The EPG then would > have to map > to those channels too, which would be accomplished by the driver > (because the > epg would be sent in that same pipe with the network video) > > 2. I haven't read the entire V4L spec, but the video coming over the > network is > encoded in MPEG4. Can the V4L device output MPEG4 video? I will read > more of the > spec, but if anyone has any clue, just let me know and that would be > great.
Sounds like what you have behaves more like a virtual DVB device than a V4L device. Have you looked into making a DVB driver for it? -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
