Antti Seppälä kirjoitti: > Segers,Jan J.K.T. wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> thanks for this great new plugin! i tryed VLC to transcode on the fly >> some windows media streams which i want to use with your iptv plugin. >> it seems to work with some issues: transcoding takes about 15% of my >> cpu power per stream. i would like to watch 5 different streams, this >> would take all my cpu power which is not very handy. i tryed using >> the VoD feature of vlc, but there are two problems: >> 1. vlc uses for VoD the rtsp protocol, where iptv has currently no >> > support for. > >> 2. vlc does not allow transcoding a windows media stream with VoD >> > (only with mpeg2 streams, but thats not very interesting). > > >> Do you have any idea how to watch several streams with your plugin >> without transcoding all the time? i only need the transcode when i >> watch one of the stream channels, so VoD would be very usefull.. >> >> > > Hi. > > Iptv plugin uses VLC to transcode only the stream being currently > received so there really should not be any CPU power wasted on > transcoding inactive streams. > > In other words a simple "video on demand" system should already be in > place. At least I can add multiple streams to the channel list and only > the active one is being transcoded. Have you experienced different behavior? > > Of course if recording then VDR will keep the stream opened and iptv > plugin has to launch another instance of VLC to keep receiving two > streams at the same time. > > > BTW. we've actually been looking into adding support for receiving rtsp > streams and while it is more laborous than other protocols I think > implementing it would be entirely possible. Testing is a bit hard since > I'm not aware of suitable mpeg2 rtsp -stream providers. Are there any > publicly available? > > Live555 Media Server @ www.live555.com is one and working, support ps and ts streams. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
