pcHDTV :: View topic - silliest question ever: difference between xine and xine-hd?

rampy

It's not made abundantly clear (to me) if there's any difference between the xine that say comes with knoppmyth, and the one on this site i.e. should I download xine-hd from here because it'll have some performance or other improvements over regular xine?

Is xine-hd maintained actively by the pchdtv crew as a separate fork/build?

Would one recommend going with the latest xine from the xine site, or xine-hd build on the pchdtv site?

thanks!

rampy

rampy

Although I think I have my answer

pcHDTV_tech

Hey rampy -
What I currently use (and am testing right now) is the latest xine-lib and xine-ui and applying a patch to xine-lib to add support for ATSC tuning using the DVB drivers. You can get that patch along with some updated tools from the downloads on pcHDTV; look for dvb_atsc_tools. In that tarball is a file called atsc_patch.

When you have unpacked xine-lib then cd to the xine-lib directory and type:

PeterKnaggs

Jack's xine atsc_patch indeed works well for me here, thanks
for adding it to the downloads. I hadn't noticed it until you mentioned it here.
I'd been working off of the patch Jack posted to the xine-dev mailing list
back in July:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12430910

I'm wondering is there a separate patch for the xine code which
lets you select the virtual channel (when playing back full captures)?

What I'm after, I guess, is the "-C" option in the xine-hd download from pcHDTV.
Does the plain xine have a similar option, or does it always need
to be patched in? It seems strange that mplayer has the "-tsprog"
flag to select the virtual channel, but I can't find any mention of
such an option or similar feature for plain xine.

I guess I could study the xine-hd code and make a standalone patch
to add the "-C" option back in to plain xine, but perhaps somebody has already
done that and I'm just missing it, so I though I'd ask here first Smile

pcHDTV_tech

I may be missing something here, are you using the V4L2 driver instead of the DVB driver? With the DVB driver and the latest Xine you can set up the channels.conf file to give you access to all of the sub channels you have available. You can even change the audio PID to use with each video PID to get SAP programming if you want it...

What am I missing???

Rusty

PeterKnaggs

> With the DVB driver and the latest Xine you can set up the channels.conf
> file to give you access to all of the sub channels you have available.
> What am I missing???

Indeed, that's true.
Sorry I wasn't clear.
I am using the DVB drivers, and xine works fine as you describe for watching live TV.

I was thinking of playing back sub channels within previously-recorded full ATSC streams.

Now that Inkling's pchdtvr is working now with the DVB API,
and it's already well able to record a specific sub channel, I guess
it isn't so much of an issue.

hobbieman

Rusty (pcHDTV_tech): is it still necessary to patch the current xine (for fedora core 6: xine-0.99.4-8 ) as you described earlier in this thread in order for xine to let you tune/watch TV with the HD3000?

I have not patched xine and whenever I run: xine dvb:// I get an error that says: "no input plugin available to handle 'dvb://'"

Note: I have already created a ~/.xine/channels.conf file with the channel info.

pcHDTV_tech

If your xine-lib is at 1.1.3 then you shouldn't need to patch it. However, my guess from your error message about "no plugin" is that you have an older version of xine-lib. Check fedoras software updater for an update of xine-lib or grab the latest from xinehq.de It will support ATSC right out of the box now.

Rusty

hobbieman

Rusty, thanks... I figured out the problem. One must also install the xine-lib-devel package! Otherwise, xine is missing certain plugins. And you are correct, no need to patch anymore.

Cheers.