[pvrusb2] MPEG stream distribution

sirius sirius_alpha at onlinehome.de
Tue Mar 21 04:51:36 CST 2006


On Saturday 18 February 2006 00:54, Phil Endecott wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have been writing some code to distribute an MPEG stream (e.g. from
> the PVRUSB2's /dev/video0) to multiple applications.  (Normally it's not
> possible for more than one process to read from /dev/video0
> simultaneously.)  My code is a simple daemon that opens the input stream
> and accepts TCP connections; each TCP connection gets sent what's
> arriving from the input at that time.  It would be good if the
> connections could be via filesystem nodes rather than TCP sockets; any
> ideas how to do that?
> [...]
> --Phil.
>

Hi,
that sounds interesting. It would be very useful for recording and watching 
simultaneously. Did you work any further on this? Can you tell us exactly how 
you did it (publish the code)?

Thanks in advance,
Sirius


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