VOMP *WITHOUT* MediaMVP?

[pvrovernetwork]

Hello everyone,

This may sound like a strange question, but is it possible to use VOMP on the VDR server side and a *regular Linux PC* (with TV-out) for the client side? i.e. the client PC would take the place of the MediaMVP.

I ask because I have a VDR setup already; my VDR computer is a server in one room and the client is an ultra-quiet Pentium3 PC, all networked with 100 Mbit full-duplex Ethernet.  If I can access my VDR setup with the client (i.e. get access to EPG, live-TV, scheduling, etc), over the network I would be set!

Thanks so much!

[Harry]

this may not be the answer you are looking for... but
hmm...
you could of course use streamdev (server) and mplayer (client).
as for scheduling and EPG .. vdradmin and a browser are your friends

no idea whether streamdev and VOMP can coexist... just give it a go!


cheers
Harry

[Chris]

Hi, I thought I would leave this one for a day or two to see if anyone came up with any good alternative solutions for this I myself am interested in exactly the same problem. At the moment it is not possible to use vomp on anything other than an MVP, but as I was telling someone else recently I am interested in the idea of porting it to other things. I once had the idea of porting the vomp client vomp to a PC with a DXR3 card, but aside from obtaining a DXR3 from ebay for next to nothing, I havn't done anything with that idea. The problem is the MPEG decoding support as far as I see it (and my limited amounts of time). The MVP solves this by having a built in MPEG decoder - all vomp does is handle data streams. Maybe it would be possible to use some software library and do it all in software but I have never looked into it. Hence the idea with the DXR3 card - decoder built in.

Short answer... No.

[MartenR]

Maybe the vomp client code can be encapsulated into a DirectShow filter, which pushes the video data to mpeg decoder filter, which every software dvd player installs on your system...

Just a little idea... I had already before for streamdev VTP protocoll...


Marten

[Chris]

It's an interesting idea, I would like to see it done. But the time I have for vomp must go into the MVP at the moment to complete the feature set that it should have, rather than starting on a windows client. If anyone else wants to take it on 

Looks like someone else is/was having a go at this idea, google for VDRMediaClient. I just had a 5 minute play and got mixed results. Errors, wrong aspect ratio, played at wrong speed etc. But I did get a picture. Then I had another go with VDR Streaming Control which is one I have had success with before, but didn't have any luck at all today.