Hi,
I have a minimal setup consisting of an old PC sitting in a different room, and a Samsung SmartTV in the living room. We rarely watch any DVDs in my family, so we do not have any dedicated DVD player.
I used to use a DVD player plugin when the VDR PC was in the living room, attached to a TV, but I would prefer to have a mostly-headless setup (the VDR PC is only hooked to a VGA monitor, no sound output at the moment).
I checked both the Streamdev plugin and the SmartTV plugin, but neither seem to support DVDs at the moment:
http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-streamdev/ http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-smarttvweb/
I wonder if there is any easy solution to stream the contents of a disk in the DVD drive of the VDR PC over the local CAT5e cabling. I guess that an alternative solution could be to transcode the DVD into MPEG PS files, which could presumably be viewed on or streamed from VDR.
Best regards,
Marko
Why not just dump the dvd iso and play it with the vdr-mplayer plugin? Or vdr-play plugin is that supports playing iso's directly.
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Marko Mäkelä marko.makela@iki.fi wrote:
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 08:18:49PM -0800, VDR User wrote:
Why not just dump the dvd iso and play it with the vdr-mplayer plugin? Or vdr-play plugin is that supports playing iso's directly.
The problem with these is that my VDR box is not connected to the living room TV, other than via Ethernet. I do not want to play the files locally on the VDR box, but stream them to the built-in decoder on my TV.
MPlayer/MEncoder seems to be the easiest route for me, because it allows me to convert videos into MPEG2 PS files that my Samsung SmartTV will play off a USB-MicroSD card adapter, without requiring the VDR box to be switched on.
I just copied one DVD (donateware Lego animation Kastlevania IV) to SD card with commands like this:
mplayer dvd://2 -dumpstream -dumpfile Kastlevania4.mpg
The only problem was that the FAT file system on the SD card would limit the size of a single file to 1 byte short of 4 GiB. Not a big deal, I can split the movie into two files.
I also successfully converted an old VDR recording from PES to PS with the following command:
mencoder -idx -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg2 -ovc copy -oac copy \ -o recording.mpg 0*.vdr
The -idx option seems to be important. All my previous attempts would lead to serious loss of audio/video sync (drifting a couple of seconds each minute). This time, I tried jumping around in the remuxed file, and the A/V sync was always perfect.
Last question: I have several hundred megabytes of recordings made in MPEG PES format. Is there some way to remux them into MPEG PS while preserving the VDR metadata, so that they can be both viewed on VDR and used 'as is' on other systems? I tried naming a PS file 00001.ps or 001.vdr, but neither file started to play.
I guess that for now, I will keep old recordings in PES format, because the PES files do play fine via the Samsung SmartTV plugin.
Marko
Hi Marko,
have you tried the xineliboutput plugin together with vdr-sxfe on the headless box? It basically gives you a remote VDR display including the OSD. The downside is, the DVD needs to be in the VDR PC in the different room... which may not be what you want.
(And yes, a simple headless solution that can access the headless VDR player's DVD or Blu-Ray drive would be nifty ... NBD comes to my mind.)
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 10:42:49PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
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Harald Milz -
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