>> I'm looking for a way to execute a command whenever a channel change is
>> selected. I think part of the 'sky' plugin is close to what I want -
>> without the stream type changing part.
>>
>> Has anyone done anything like this?
>
> Udo wrote:
> Not as far as I know, but it should be possible with a quite simple
> plugin, even for a plugin-beginner:
>
> - do newplugin to create a vanilla plugin
> - Add code to derive an object from cStatus, eg.
> class cMyStatus : public cStatus { .... }
> - Add the ChannelSwitch method, from there call SystemExec(), found in
> thread.h
> - Create an instance (ptr=new cMyStatus()) of this object in the plugin
> start method, and destroy it in the stop method.
>
> The script you call with SystemExec should terminate quicky, since it
> will block VDR. If you need more time, you can call stuff with & in your
> script.
I'm WAAAY out of my depth on this. I have no experience at this level!
Would like to understand - and have been modifying and tuning stuff within
VDR for a while, but am totally lost when it comes to the real
inner-workings. Any help would be gladly appreciated!
Thanks
Simon
