[mythtv] DVB integration - first attempt!

Matt Zimmerman mdz at debian.org
Wed Apr 23 11:31:38 EDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:34:23AM +0100, Edward Wildgoose wrote:

> I'm thinking that a small perl script wrapped around dvbstream would take
> care of creating a suitable device for myth to access.  We can then start
> working on the myth side and I am happy to knock you up an mpeg stream
> which just plays in a loop and gets stuffed down the socket in order to
> simulate the effect of having a card.

Just a note: It would be wrong to create a fifo with the same path as a
standard device.  If you name it /dev/video, it must look and act like a v4l
device, which a named pipe cannot possibly.

(not that I think a named pipe is a good idea in this instance anyway)

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 - mdz


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