[mythtv] Adding support for custom capture card

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Wed Oct 12 18:47:17 UTC 2005


Luc Gallant wrote:

>
>Hello List,
>
>Two questions for everyone on the devel list:
>
>FIRSTLY:
>I have a custom device that I am interested in having mythtv support. Basically
>this device sends video over the network, either localhost or through the
>network, and using mythtv I want to extract the video from that pipe. The pipe
>could contain multiple streams (channels) and myth would then be able to browse
>through those channels. 
>
>I figure that creating a new capture card is the way to go, but I figure that
>there should be a way to bridge the device into V4L device. Anyway, I will be
>doing the programming so any advice would be appreciated.
>
>SECONDLY:
>I wanto to start editing some of the stuff for experimentation, but I can't seem
>to understand the structure of mythtv well enough to begin. I tried looking for
>documentation about the development, but can't find much. I need advice on how
>to get started into it. If anyone could let me know how to get going that would
>be greatly appreciated.
>
>  
>
Why don't you write a V4L driver for this device?  Then any V4L 
compliant software like MythTV would work with it without modification?

I think this may have some resources in that direction: 
http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/

Kevin


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