Hello all, I was thinkig about a way to add live TV to mplayer/freevo, now have this idea and I want your opinions on it.
This approch assumes a ivtv card, so /dev/video0 gives a mpeg2 stream. >From what I understand about live TV, the problems are: - Storing a buffer of "live" tv - Not storing to much (doing "dd if=/dev/video0 of=buffer& mplayer buffer" enables "live tv" but you'll run out of hard disc space pretty soon) - Minimalising the time taken between channel changes. (the appoch outlined above is very bad at that as well) So my idea is very simple: make a program that reads the video stream, puts it in a dynamically allocated ring buffer and simaltaniously (using threads) offers it for reading on a other filedescriptor or stdout. On channel changes, the ring buffer would be created anew to keep it from growing to big and to minimize channel change delay. As far as I can see, this would solve the live TV problem. The only thing you won't be able to do is rewinding in a stream, but I don't care much about that. So what do you guys think? is this possible? Should I continue development of this little program? Or is it a futile exersise? Best Regards, Wander Winkelhorst. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id344&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
