Re: dvbd

[Michael Riepe <michael.riepe@googlemail.com>]

Hi Kjeld,

> But one thing which I would like to do is to use dvbd together with VLC,
> because VLC can handle the DVB subtitles used in Denmark. But VLC does
> not seem to like connecting to the dvbd socket. If anyone have success
> with that, I sure would like to know.

you can access a particular stream with dvbcat and pipe it into a media
player (xine works fine). I usually do it differently, though: write the
stream to disk and let the player read the file. That way you also get
time shifting (which doesn't work when you use a pipe). And if you use a
low priority for live viewing, scheduled recordings will take precedence.

Writing a plug-in based on dvbcat would be another option. That might
also allow you to switch channels on the fly (if the other channel is
accessible, that is - one of the reasons why I use multiple receivers).

> Also at some time soon I would need to stream some DVB signals. But I do
> not like the way this is done by most tools, they seems to be using up
> CPU cycles even if nobody is listening.

If they use UDP multicast (the standard way of media streaming), they
never know who's listening.

-- 
Michael "Tired" Riepe <michael.riepe@googlemail.com>
X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little