On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:05:09PM +0200, Markus Ecker wrote: > I was reading through the streamdev source code today, and allthough I don't > understand it a 100% yet,I think I can extend it to support the SageTV > recorder plugin protocol. > Nice! > If anyone wants to write a VDR plugin to support the device directly, I can > provide network dumps of the communication between the extender and the > server. > Ok. Can you put some dumps online? Or if you don't have web/ftp space for that, I think I can fix something.. I could take a look at those dumps.. -- Pasi > Markus > > 2008/7/18 Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>: > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:52:53PM +0200, Markus Ecker wrote: > > > Dear Pasi, > > > Out of the box, it only works together with the SageTV server software. > > > The GUI is rendered on the server, the device acts as a dumb terminal. > > > > > > However, they released some source code, and I just found some more > > > technical details on the MythTV wiki: > > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/SageTV_HD_Extender > > > > > > > Yep.. someone with access to hd_extender should do some packet capturing > > and/or tracing to figure out how the communication between sagetv server > > and > > hd_extender is done.. > > > > I'm not interested in using SageTV software, but I'd like to use this > > device with > > VDR.. if possible. And possibly help developing a vdr plugin :) > > > > -- Pasi > > > > > Markus. > > > > > > 2008/7/16 Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:20:27PM +0200, Markus Ecker wrote: > > > > > Torgeir, > > > > > It's this box: http://sagetv.com/hd_extender.html. Not sure about > > the > > > > > hardware, but it runs Linux. > > > > > > > > > > From the spec: > > > > > Video format supported: MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264 up to 1080p, AVI, > > VOB, > > > > > WMV9/VC-1 up to 1080p > > > > > > > > > > I run it at the moment with a dubious shell script doing the DVB > > > > recording, > > > > > and the picture is very nice and fluid. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hmm.. is there any way to send video streams to this device without > > running > > > > sagetv atm? > > > > > > > > Looks like a nice device:) > > > > > > > > -- Pasi > > > > > > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
