Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-14 Thread Karl Glatz
Maybe some of the Sigmatel Chips used in Popcorn co? 2009/4/14 Georg Acher ac...@in.tum.de On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:48:44PM +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: What is the hardware platform then? What CPU GPU is used? Are you running closed or open graphics drivers etc? It's a typical

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-14 Thread Matti Horila
Georg Acher wrote: For the client side, the sources will be published as GPL. Currently we use a closed source daemon with a dvb loopback driver in the kernel, but that makes it hard to fully use the tuner virtualization and costs some overhead for small CPUs. Since we already have a native

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Georg Acher
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 06:28:36PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: http://www.reel-multimedia.com/en/shop_netclient.php describes a new product by reel that allows streaming of HD content over the network. It includes a hw decoder that supports mpeg2/4 and is to be used with the reelbox

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Torgeir Veimo
So it does not allow viewing of channels received as DVB-C/S/T on the avantgarde, or such recordings, only IPTV transmissions? 2009/4/13 Georg Acher ac...@in.tum.de On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 06:28:36PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: http://www.reel-multimedia.com/en/shop_netclient.php describes a

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Matthias Müller
Hi, Georg Acher schrieb: The thing is not yet available, so the current SVN doesn't contain most of the new code. But in general it uses the same reelvdr-base as the Avantgarde (just with a different output plugin for the SoC). The live TV streaming is not done by the vdr on the Avantgarde,

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Georg Acher
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:54:14PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: So it does not allow viewing of channels received as DVB-C/S/T on the avantgarde, or such recordings, only IPTV transmissions? The NetCeiver IS a DVB-S/C/T headend to IPTV. So the tuners the Avantgarde-vdr uses are already sourced

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Georg Acher
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:03:02PM +0200, Matthias Müller wrote: I have no netceiver to play with and didn't look at the sources. But it's nice to see a real world use for IPv6 in consumer hardware (if you can call the reel boxes consumer hardware, it's probably only for a limited, but

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Matthias Müller
Hi, Georg Acher schrieb: I have no netceiver to play with and didn't look at the sources. But it's nice to see a real world use for IPv6 in consumer hardware (if you can call the reel boxes consumer hardware, it's probably only for a limited, but sophisticated market. The client

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Torgeir Veimo
If the netclient hardware runs GPL software I assume that in theory someone could implement a streamdev client that facilitated the hw mepg2/4 decoder? 2009/4/14 Georg Acher ac...@in.tum.de On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:03:02PM +0200, Matthias Müller wrote: I have no netceiver to play with and

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Matthias Müller
Hi, Torgeir Veimo schrieb: If the netclient hardware runs GPL software I assume that in theory someone could implement a streamdev client that facilitated the hw mepg2/4 decoder? If you look at the specs and the description Georg provided, a streamdev-client isn't needed, only a proper

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Torgeir Veimo
That might be, but one of the reasons that I run VDR is the ability to tweak the capabilities and the user experience. So changing the client is just as interesting as implementing a suitable backend. 2009/4/14 Matthias Müller k...@networkhell.de Hi, Torgeir Veimo schrieb: If the netclient

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Georg Acher
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:46:14PM +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: But does the Reel Smart-Client box run vdr? Yes, but like on the Avantgarde it's the Reel-variant (based on 1.4.x with our own HDTV extensions). -- Georg Acher, ac...@in.tum.de

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Andrew Herron
What is the hardware platform then? What CPU GPU is used? Are you running closed or open graphics drivers etc? On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Georg Acher ac...@in.tum.de wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:46:14PM +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: But does the Reel Smart-Client box run vdr? Yes,

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Georg Acher
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:48:44PM +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: What is the hardware platform then? What CPU GPU is used? Are you running closed or open graphics drivers etc? It's a typical System-on-Chip for STBs. Details will be announced later. -- Georg Acher, ac...@in.tum.de