Micah F. Galizia wrote: >I'm no expert, so I'll reply off the list. In any case, the V4L should >be used for devices that encode and decode video. What format is the >media streamed in? You might be better off to look at writing a client >interface for the streaming video. Depending on how it is actually >done, most of the work may already be done for you.
Well, the video coming across the network is in MPEG4. I am pretty sure mythtv will accept MPEG4, but if I create a DVB driver and mythtv is interfacing with my DVB driver, will it expect MPEG2? That is a problem at this point, I have to figure out how to get my MPEG4 to mythtv is a good way. As stated in the quote below, I am now aware that V4L will do MPEG4, just not sure how DVB will handle this. Daniel Kristjansson wrote: >I don't think you need to write a driver at all to support this device. >It sounds similar to the DBox2 or Firewire recorders. While I wouldn't >recommend modeling your code after those, it sounds like all you need >to do is implement a DTVRecorder child class and a ChannelBase child >class for your device along the lines of those two recorders. There is >major/minor channel and "freqency id" and program number support in >ChannelBase. >But if you want to write a driver, DVB probably makes the most sense. >Though V4L has no problem with MPEG4 streams. So if it resembles those devices, and I manage to use some of their code to create my device, wouldn't it be hard to let others use my device? I am thinking that in this way I would have to distribute a mythtv patch to people that I would want to try, and then they have to recompile. In the driver way, it would be independent. That is pretty much my "worry" right now, because I don't want to code just for myself, I want to make this stuff actually distributable. Luc Gallant ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
