Re: [Dvbstreamer-devel] The next release - Version 1.0?

[Paul K. <pa...@st...>]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Paul Kelly wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Adam Charrett wrote:
>
>> I'll add a -L option (not -l as this is used by setupdvbstreamer and all
>> the apps will get this new option) to allow you to specify a file to log
>> to. I'll look into using a filename like '-' to mean stderr.
>>
>> By the way, I'm curious what exactly are you using DVBStreamer for? (No
>> need to answer that if you not allowed ;-) )
>
> Yes no problem - I'm writing a number of custom plugins to process and
> save the content simultaneously from multiple services on each multiplex.
> When they're finished and tested I expect to release them under the GPL.
> A while ago I posted a previous iteration of a plugin to split the MPEG-TS
> stream into minute-long files to this list I think. Another one transcodes
> the MPEG video and audio in realtime into a more compressed format and
> saves this. To do this it uses an external transcoding library. The
> external library (FFmpeg) issues occasional warnings and errors to
> stderr. My plugins have used (up to now)  the dvbstreamer logging
> mechanism, which also wrote to stderr and the messages from FFmpeg would
> be interspersed in the correct order with the log output from my plugins,
> allowing me to see easily when and as part of what sequence of events the
> errors/warnings had occured.
>
> The "-l -" option would be useful, otherwise I think I will just change my
> plugins to write the log info directly to stderr to get around this.

Looks like I can get FFmpeg to use the dvbstreamer LogModule() function, 
so not to worry about that last comment. The user-specifiable log file 
will still be really useful though, thanks.

Paul