feature: dvr

[disconn3ct]

Has anyone considered a basic dvr function? It looks like there is a spot in the (literal) pipeline where it has effectively standard mp4 video that could be diverted to a file as well as playback.

• Connect USB storage, allow system to automatically mount it
• When goggles attached, if usb storage is present, send it to a file as well as the player: | tee /storage/dvr-2220.mp4 |
• During streaming, automatically run sync to flush the write cache periodically

Alternately:

• OUTFILE=/dev/null
  • When storage is detected, OUTFILE=/storage/dvr-2221.mp4
• Include | tee ${OUTFILE} | in the pipeline. This has a very minor performance cost for non-dvr playback, extraneously sending the stream to /dev/null
• Still run the periodic syncs during streaming, which shouldn't impact except in dvr mode. (Ideally few/no writes should be going to the system device.)

In both approaches, closing the stream will automatically close the file. The periodic sync should defend (barely) against corruption on power-off, while still allowing a reasonable write cache. Corruption risks are primarily to the DVR storage, rather than the system volume.

I might hack something together if there is any interest. Having a second screen is huge for outreach where we fly but I don't want to lose my dvr

[sandstreamer]

+1

[cosmicc]

I'm also going to hack together something to get it to at least dump the video out to a file. Let me know if you would like to get together on this.