[mythtv] DVB integration - first attempt!

[Ben Bucksch]

Edward Wildgoose wrote:

>Can I get a rough idea as to the diff.  I already applied v2, this would help.
>
Your best bet is to unapply diff 2 (patch -p 0 -R) and apply the new 
diff, wait a moment, I am still writing, I'll tell you when I have a new 
patch with the new code for your full card.

>I had kind of assumed that the stream interface would be the dvbstream interface!
>
heh, and I added a long comment to streammrecorder.h to explain what it 
does :-/.

>I have also had a look at the dvbstream code in CVS and it seems reasonable enough - do I assume that you have basically ripped that out directly?
>
I massively stripped dvbstream.c from >2000 lines to 500 lines. The 
result is in libdvbdev/dvbdev.cpp and libmythtv/dvb[recorder|channel].cpp.

>However, the flip side is that to get a stream out of the full featured cards is about 3 lines of code!  (according to the readme in the DVB driver directory)
>
It wasn't all that easy. Which README do you mean (URL)?  
linux-dvb.2003-04-13/README doesn't say anything.

The 3 lines don't help me much, because I have to support the budget 
cards anyways, so it's only *additional* code from my standpoint. 
Anyways, I think I have that code now.

>hmm, where is this defined?  The code seems to get it from the command line and has some hardcoded defaults for important stuff like QAM, etc
>
Use the numbers of whatever you passed to dvbstream on the commandline.

>Contact me offlist
>
OK...

>I will buy a Nova-T card if this is the easiest way to get going.
>
You don't need to buy another card :).

>Where are you based anyway?
>
Germany, Wiesbaden.

>Basically we need a simple program which just does channel init, then record, and spits the output to [...] stdout
>
That exists and is called dvbstream ;-)

Ben