--- On Thu, 2/11/10, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote: > > /mediamvp/pvr500.avi -> /dev/video1
> Given that /dev/video1 is MPEG2 and the MVP will play that > natively, any mechanism you can use to make it directly > accessible could prove more efficient than involving VLC. Removing layers from the solution would certainly be more efficient, but at this point I just want to see it work. Then I can tune for efficiency. I'm still a rank n00b when it comes to MVPMC. I may be happy with the VLC-centric solution, especially if I can figure out the magic necessary to make VLC simultaneously serve /dev/video1 to the MVP, and to http://server:8080 so that I can tap into the channel from any host. The LAN I plan to use this on is currently dark (no Internet access at the location). I'm trying to pipe satellite radio around the house without having to run hardwired speakers. > wonder if you could setup something like /media on the > server, export it via NFS, and inside create a node that is > hardlinked to the real device. Riffing off my example above, is this a similar proposal (using symbolic links)? [server side] /mediamvp/pvr500.MPG -> /dev/video1 [MVP side] /mediamvp/pvr500.MPG This or an avi-suffixed equivalent are tonight's experiment plans, if I get the time. > An even more efficient approach might be connecting > /dev/video1 to a network port via netcat or inetd, but you'd > to add a bit of custom code to mvpmc - a simple client to > feed the stream to the MVP's MPEG decoder. That's interesting. I'm doing something similar now with VLC, although I haven't convinced the stock nightly MVPMC to connect to the stream. If I get ambitious, I'll take a crack at the MVPMC code along these lines. Thanks for all the suggestions. My MVP has been dark and cold since lightning zapped my old router, and I couldn't convince the MVP to talk to my new router wirelessly. I'm looking forward to using it again. Next I'll bug you all about streaming encrypted commercial DVDs. ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
