dumbiggie wrote: > I also plan to try setting up symbolic links on the server side to > see if VLC will do the right thing and stream to MVPMC: > > /mediamvp/pvr500.avi -> /dev/video1
Given that /dev/video1 is MPEG2 and the MVP will play that natively, any mechanism you can use to make it directly accessible could prove more efficient than involving VLC. You mentioned you didn't want to export /dev via NFS. I wonder if you could setup something like /media on the server, export it via NFS, and inside create a node that is hardlinked to the real device. Or create another device file with the same major/minor numbers in that directory. Call the file something ending in .mpg and it might be playable. Another option might be connecting up /dev/video1 to a named pipe in a directory that is NFS exported. I believe you'd need a bit of glue code to stream bits from the device to the pipe, when a reader opens the pipe. This opens the possibility of creating per-channel pipes, and having the glue code issue channel change commands to your tuner reflecting which pipe file was opened. An even more efficient approach might be connecting /dev/video1 to a network port via netcat or inetd, but you'd to add a bit of custom code to mvpmc - a simple client to feed the stream to the MVP's MPEG decoder. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
