Re: [Openpvr-devel] Re: ongoing development, ideas, etc

[Robert K. <rku...@ro...>]

> I wonder if we can interest these folks in expanding their project to
> include "Show" based recording as well as schedule grabbing with
> XMLTV.

There's been another message on the VDR list: [From Mike Pieper, who says he
needs a few days to setup a website with the code]
" 
On Sunday 17 March 2002 22:52, you wrote:
> you wrote, you can see the vdr OSD in your fb device (VGA card). How do
> you make this? How to output vdr on an other device than the dvb card?
To speed up the OSD for VDR, Klaus Schmiedinger implemented a OSD-class which

is sending bitmaps to the DVB-card. I derived from VDR's OSD-class and 
exchanged the code which sends the bitmap to the DVB-card by code which sends

the bitmap via pipe to my application. This application puts the bitmap on 
the VGA-card then (by using DirectFb). Therefore it looks exactly the same 
like in the original VDR.
"

I think that since there's an analog-in recording capability using mp1e [but
it doesn't appear well integrated yet] and there's a output to VGA card
function about to be integrated, it might be useful to expand the existing
project rather than start one from scratch.  There might be philosophical
issues though; their EPG comes over the air, and since they do all their
encoding in hardware there have been people talking about having 3 and 4 MPEG
cards in Celeron 400's.  I think we're going to need every CPU cycle we have
if we're capturing and encoding in software.

They also chunk into 2GB sections, and if I recall, the maintainer didn't
want to accept a "big file" patch that could handle bigger chunks.  Shows
hierarchies are arranged by creating subdirectory structures.

I've been working on a show-name scheduler and working on determining
clusters of identical shows that are available for recording in case of
conflict based on XMLTV data.  The logical flow is pretty scoped out, so the
next part is to see how it codes.



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