Karl Lattimer wrote: > 1) Wouldn't it be cool if I could watch TV on my mac through WiFi
Sure and Freevo 2.0 will be able to do that. > 2) WOW, if I'm streaming network video I can pause/rewind it just like > web radio That is more a client feature. If you use xine you can also do that, with mplayer you can't. > 3) OMFGG, if freevo had a TV player interface to a vlc streaming server > running then I could pause/rewind TV in freevo Yes, and we already have a patch for mplayer to support chunk file playing and we will put that in xine, too. > I think the there are the following requirements, > * A VLC (running as a client) plugin for TV input > * A remote interface so the play/pause/rewind/fast forward buttons > work on tv Arg. The client is only used for watching and you send play/pause over the network. I hope they are using RTSP. Or is it your idea. If so: don't! Timeshifting should be handled in the client, not the streaming server. > * A method of changing channels ?! v4lctl/lirc-send/network somehow > for situations where the TV receiver is in another machine or viewer > is remote via network For me there is no difference between a local recorder and a remote one. > It would probably be best to have a tcp server app for receiving the > channel change commands and then acting on them, my reasoning for this > is when you have a streaming video server there is no sense in closing > off the channel change function to the network. No, that's a bad hack. Use RTSP for that or control the recorder over mbus. Dischi -- What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
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