[linux-dvb] Re: dvbstream and transcode

2003-11-16 Thread Jamie Honan
> A tzap wrapper could well work. Someone else (sorry, I can't recall who) > mentioned a channels.conf parser and I think that's where we're heading. ... > > There is a library that almost does this : dvbsak. (cvs version is > > ahead of tarball : tarball easier to build). > > dvbsak looks to be

[linux-dvb] Re: dvbstream and transcode

2003-11-15 Thread Dave Chapman
Tomi Ollila wrote: Oh yes, last and least, I'd like to have dvbstream that keeps the frontend driver open until it stops recording -- when I update to "current"struct dvb-driver -- so that I don't have to add that dvb_shutdown_timeout=0 to dvb-core options. Why have dvb module active when there is

[linux-dvb] Re: dvbstream and transcode

2003-11-15 Thread Tomi Ollila
Hi I'm also using dvbstream to do my dvb-recordings; I have 'if it ain't (too badly) broken, don't fix it' system: Red Hat 8.0, dvb-oldstruct driver checked out from cvs August 2002 and dvbstream, also from year 2002 (The system is getting broken -- maybe fedora and 2.6 -kernel is installed next).

[linux-dvb] Re: dvbstream and transcode

2003-11-15 Thread John Knottenbelt
I wrote some scripts to work with dvbstream: schedule - allows to schedule a recording (uses at, but checks that the parameters are ok) record - records a pid right now tune - tunes to a named channel (PS output) tune-ts - tunes to a named channel (TS output) tune-radio - tunes a radio station (

[linux-dvb] Re: dvbstream and transcode

2003-11-15 Thread Jim Darby
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:39, Dave Chapman wrote: > The poll system call is already being used. What other fixes have you > done? I would be very happy to see you commit them to CVS. There we some subtle implementation issues. Would you like me to e-mail you my revised code so you can sanity ch

[linux-dvb] Re: dvbstream and transcode

2003-11-14 Thread John Knottenbelt
One feature that I would really like to see (although I'm not sure that it belongs in dvbstream) is to know what are the names of the currently showing programs. For example, my friend has a Nebular and the recording software records under the name of the currently showing program. This might

[linux-dvb] Re: dvbstream and transcode

2003-11-14 Thread Dave Chapman
Jim Darby wrote: Hello all, I've been thinking about Dave Chapman's dvbstream for a while. Earlier on this year I put a few little fixes in (things like the use of poll system call). I didn't update the main software CVS because the fixes were quick work-arounds and I didn't want to put the code o

[linux-dvb] Re: dvbstream and transcode

2003-11-13 Thread Jamie Honan
> Tuning from tzap, to avoid all those tedious manual parameters. In other > words something like: > > dvbstream "BBC ONE" > Getting it to start at or in a specific time: > dvbstream --at 20:55 "BBC ONE" These are good ideas; they are heading in the direction of a command line vdr. I