Re: [vdr] Popcorn as VDR frontend

2009-03-14 Thread Johan Andersson
Thank you for your responses. I would be happy for any help offered and would gladly share any results I come up with. If anyone wants my diffs for building xinelib/vdr-fbe on PCH, please mail me. For me, the overall goal is: - Get the functionality of a full VDR frontend on PCH The

Re: [vdr] Popcorn as VDR frontend

2009-03-13 Thread alexw
Hi Johan, You have a good approach. I am using the vdr-ui frontend right now which uses the TS from streamdev to feed the mono player. I managed to have a compiled version of the xine lib but I failed to use it due to deep code cutting to get it running. As far as I have understood you succeed

Re: [vdr] Popcorn as VDR frontend

2009-03-13 Thread jori.hamalainen
Before I dig deeper into this I would like to ask the community what has been tried Have you tried vdr-ui, it is a cgi-binary ran on PCH to fetch EPG from VDR and using streamdev to stream. http://www.popcornforum.de/showthread.php?tid=5201pid=71288 and what routes do you see as most

Re: [vdr] Popcorn as VDR frontend

2009-03-13 Thread alexw
Hi, VDR-UI uses mono to play the stream. It is impossible for the moment to switch from one channel to another without going back to VDR-UI. I can imagine a workaround that consists of using a playlist instead of a stream URL. But direct channel selection will still not be possible (example:

Re: [vdr] Popcorn as VDR frontend

2009-03-13 Thread Artem Makhutov
Hello, alexw schrieb: Hi, VDR-UI uses mono to play the stream. It is impossible for the moment to switch from one channel to another without going back to VDR-UI. I can imagine a workaround that consists of using a playlist instead of a stream URL. But direct channel selection will

Re: [vdr] Popcorn as VDR frontend

2009-03-13 Thread jori.hamalainen
and what routes do you see as most viable? Well this sounds the best option for full VDR front-end if recordings work as well.. Having the full frontend will also bring all the plugin flexibility back to the NMT :o) And recording/cutting/marks/realtime EPG/time shifting... Yes, I

[vdr] Popcorn as VDR frontend

2009-03-12 Thread Johan Andersson
I need some advise on routes to look into on the subject. First, thank you Klaus and all for a great PVR. I have tried a lot of others like Myth, MediaPortal, GBPVR etc, but the silent menusystems are hopelessly inferior to having all menus on OSD. Me and my family have used VDR for 2+ years