[Mplayer-dvb] mplayer and more than just one dvb board

[Andreas Roedl]

Hello!

The dvb devices are hardcoded in "libvo/vo_mpegpes.c" like this:

  if((vo_mpegpes_fd = open("/dev/ost/video", O_RDWR)) < 0) {
    perror("DVB VIDEO DEVICE: ");
    return -1;
  }

  if((vo_mpegpes_fd2 = open("/dev/ost/audio", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)) < 0) {
    perror("DVB AUDIO DEVICE: ");
    return -1;
  }

Could this be made configurable somehow? The reason: most of the dvb users 
own more than one card (the rich people) because they need it for the 
timeshifting functionality in vdr:

  http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/software.htm

As you possibly know there is a mplayer patch for that nice piece of 
software, but if you switch the so called primary interface to a different 
card than the first one mplayer won't work because it tries to a access the 
first board. Appart from that, device names shouldn't be hardcoded anyway :-)

Imagine something like

  mplayer -ao mpegpes:1 -vo mpegpes:1 -vc mpegpes file.vob

or

  mplayer -ao mpegpes:/dev/ost/video1 -vo mpegpes:/dev/ost/video1 -vc mpe...


This would be very, very nice!


Andi

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