[vdr] Problems getting VDR starting

[Tim Hewett <tghewett1@onetel.net.uk>]

Hi,

I'm having some difficulty getting vdr strarted. I have no hardware
decoder and instead I've got the xine plugin. I'm starting vdr with
runvdr -Pxine but nothing appears on the console, am I right that
when using a software decoder you should get a xine window
showing the TV picture in the same way as doing
"cat /dev/dvr/adapter0/dvr0 | xine stdin:/" (which works fine
incidentally, so the card and driver are working)?

This appears when vdr is run:

[root@Linux vdr]# ./runvdr -Pxine
SetVolumeDevice: 255
SetPlayMode: 1

and these logs appear in /var/log/messages:

Jan  5 10:24:40 Linux vdr[2704]: VDR version 1.2.6 started
Jan  5 10:24:40 Linux vdr[2704]: loading plugin: 
./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-xine.so.1.2.6
Jan  5 10:24:40 Linux vdr[2704]: loading /video/setup.conf
Jan  5 10:24:40 Linux vdr[2704]: loading /video/sources.conf
Jan  5 10:24:40 Linux vdr[2704]: loading /video/diseqc.conf
Jan  5 10:24:40 Linux vdr[2704]: loading /video/channels.conf
Jan  5 10:24:40 Linux vdr[2704]: loading /video/svdrphosts.conf
Jan  5 10:24:40 Linux vdr[2704]: loading /video/ca.conf
Jan  5 10:24:40 Linux vdr[2704]: loading /video/remote.conf
Jan  5 10:24:40 Linux vdr[2704]: loading /video/keymacros.conf
Jan  5 10:24:41 Linux vdr[2704]: found 2 video devices
Jan  5 10:24:41 Linux vdr[2704]: initializing plugin: xine (0.1.1): 
Software based playback using xine
Jan  5 10:24:41 Linux vdr[2704]: setting primary device to 3
Jan  5 10:24:41 Linux vdr[2704]: SVDRP listening on port 2001
Jan  5 10:24:41 Linux vdr[2704]: starting plugin: xine
Jan  5 10:24:41 Linux vdr[2704]: switching to channel 1
Jan  5 10:25:00 Linux CROND[2731]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S 
/var/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner)
Jan  5 10:25:00 Linux CROND[2732]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S 
/var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news)
Jan  5 10:26:00 Linux CROND[2734]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S 
/var/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner)
Jan  5 10:26:29 Linux vdr[2704]: caught signal 2
Jan  5 10:26:29 Linux vdr[2704]: saved setup to /video/setup.conf
Jan  5 10:26:29 Linux vdr[2704]: stopping plugin: xine
Jan  5 10:26:29 Linux vdr[2704]: exiting
Jan  5 10:26:29 Linux su(pam_unix)[2703]: session closed for user root

There are 2 devices, a Technisat SkyStar2 PCI and a Hauppauge
DEC2000-t USB, adapters 0 and 1 respectively. It seems odd
that it says "setting primary device to 3" when there are only 2
devices, maybe device 3 is the xine plugin?

Looking at a similar thread from December I saw someone mention
compiling using the DEBUG_OSD flag. I tried that but all that happened
is that a textual menu appeared in the konsole that vdr was started
in - still no picture.

Where am I going wrong? Or can vdr only display on a TV even if
a software decoder is used? Any advice appreciated!

Regards,

Tim.



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