Re: [vdr] Output plugin

[Theunis Potgieter]

Perhaps the plugin could be adapted to pipe livetv  to a unix socket and in
the script tell mplayer where to connect to the unix socket? Or start
recordings from VDR Admin or SVDRP and watch live-recording.

Just playing with ideas. The mplayer script/plugin was designed to be not
dependent on X (depending on mplayer video output support compiled). I think
it contains a vdr-plugin that calls a script called mplayer.sh/mplay.sh so
that you as a user can play with the settings without having to modify the
vdr-plugin all the time. Perhaps in this case the plugin will have to be
modified include livetv viewing?

Do have a look at the script, you will see the attributes set in the script
builds the command line to call mplayer, so you will just have to adapt your
current command line that you use for your specific mplayer into this
script.

On 11/04/2008, Josce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > on Gentoo there is  vdr-mplayer plugin,
>
>
> I thought this plugin is for playing files only?
>
> What I am interested in is a "Output device" plugin.
> So that I could pipe/stream all the output - including live viewing -
> to the modified mplayer that has hardware acceleration.
>
> Josce
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Re: [vdr] Output plugin

[Josce]

> X + tvtime, it uses the MPEG2 decoder of the FF card.

Sorry, I should have stated that I wanted to avoid using X Windows.
(I like vdr specifically because it is not X window)

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Re: [vdr] Output plugin

[Josce]

> on Gentoo there is  vdr-mplayer plugin,

I thought this plugin is for playing files only?

What I am interested in is a "Output device" plugin.
So that I could pipe/stream all the output - including live viewing -
to the modified mplayer that has hardware acceleration.

Josce


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Re: [vdr] Output plugin

[Füley István]

d) any other solution?


X + tvtime, it uses the MPEG2 decoder of the FF card.

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Re: [vdr] Output plugin

[Theunis Potgieter]

on Gentoo there is  vdr-mplayer plugin, it is basically a script that calls
mplayer as the plugin, it only works for people that use a FrameBuffer or
DVB Hardware output device. Now from what I understood at the time is that
there are to methods for invoking mplayer there is a mplayer.sh and a
mplay.sh script both have different settings and you have to choose which
one of the 2 to use.

Gentoo information:

media-plugins/vdr-mplayer
 Available versions:  0.10.0 ~0.10.1
 Homepage:http://www.muempf.de/
 Description: VDR Plugin: api to mplayer

Hope this is of any help to you.

On 11/04/2008, Josce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  My Hauppauge DVB card rev2.1 (FF) DVB-C card has some
> connection problem on its video out jack. So sometimes
> the screen goes blank and I have to slightly adjust the
> video out plug to regain picture.
>
> I am currently using vdr-1.6.0.
>
> I would like to use the softdevice plugin but here is the catch:
>
> The VGA is a Via CX700M2 and DirectFB does not support it,
> and my CPU is too slow for unaccelerated fb. (> 85% cpu usage)
>
> Now, Via has created a framebuffer driver that uses the CX700M2
> hardware MPEG2/MPEG4 acceleration. And a modified mplayer (VeMP1.6)
> that takes advantage of this. With this combination I can play
> vdr recordings with < 6% cpu usage. Now my question is:
>
> a) is there some plugin that could pipe the stream directly
> to mplayer to handle the output?
>
> b) could the hardware MPEG decoder by used somehow and the
> decoded stream be sent to framebuffer driver?
>
> c) would it be a big task to add acceleration support to the
> softdevice plugin? (Could then play hdtv stuff with it?)
>
> d) any other solution?
>
> Josce
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[vdr] Output plugin

[Josce]

My Hauppauge DVB card rev2.1 (FF) DVB-C card has some
connection problem on its video out jack. So sometimes
the screen goes blank and I have to slightly adjust the
video out plug to regain picture.

I am currently using vdr-1.6.0.

I would like to use the softdevice plugin but here is the catch:

The VGA is a Via CX700M2 and DirectFB does not support it,
and my CPU is too slow for unaccelerated fb. (> 85% cpu usage)

Now, Via has created a framebuffer driver that uses the CX700M2
hardware MPEG2/MPEG4 acceleration. And a modified mplayer (VeMP1.6)
that takes advantage of this. With this combination I can play
vdr recordings with < 6% cpu usage. Now my question is:

a) is there some plugin that could pipe the stream directly
to mplayer to handle the output?

b) could the hardware MPEG decoder by used somehow and the
decoded stream be sent to framebuffer driver?

c) would it be a big task to add acceleration support to the
softdevice plugin? (Could then play hdtv stuff with it?)

d) any other solution?

Josce

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