How can I access direct streaming video from a PVR card or local webcam to the PRISMIQ?
You would have to write your own transcoding plugin. Caveman says: Using our transcoding plugin architecture, one could take raw video and audio frames from a capture card and feed them to the player(s). Using a large capture file as a ring buffer, this plugin could capture and encode in real time, and send video to the player from some point behind, giving it some PVR functionality. Anyone can download and build our reference transcoding plugin: http://update.PRISMIQ.org/plugins From there, one could rip out the unnecessary decoding code and replace it with something to read raw video and audio frames from the capture devices. Then modify the play, pause, jump, etc. functions to use the new capture ring file. For channel control, one could create a special descriptor file (text is fine) for each channel, which the plugin would read for whatever information it needs to change to that channel. These descriptor files would then be added to some playlist for easy access, probably a playli
