Hi Udo, On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 03:57 +0100, Udo Richter wrote: > Vladimir Kangin wrote: > > I would like to raise a discussion about VDR compliance with a wide > > range available STBs (Set-Top-Box) for IPTV carrier integration. > > > > The advantage of such compliance is obvious - low cost of STB. The cost > > of STB is in the range of 80-150 USD. > > I'm not sure about what you're actually talking. Do you want VDR to act > as IPTV receiver, do you want VDR to act as a relay from classic digital > TV to IPTV boxes, do you want some IPTV box with VDR as software, or do > you want to use a IPTV box as VDR remote front end? The last one is true :) IPTV STBs usually are very limited, I doubt that VDR can be loaded on it. While it ideal low-cost remote frontend staff. > > The compliance is actually matter of: > > > > 1) multicast MPEG-TS streaming support; > > As for receiving multicast, this is possible with streamplayer plugin. > Transmitting could be done with VLC and streamdev - or even with VLC alone. Yes, that's true. VLC and streamdev i had in mind but that is not tided with VDR and could work as an proof of concept so far. > > 2) vdradmin support for multiuser STB environment. > > I'm not sure what this is supposed to be. In order to interact from IPTV STBs with backend the middle-ware required. The main role of middle-ware to reply on http requests and provide either RTSP URL or multicast group to STB. Basically middle-ware is a kind of web site that take in to account that STB could overlay http page on a top of video received via multicast. In theory vdradmin could be extended to support IPTV STBs. > Cheers, > > Udo > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
