[vdr] Re: Problems getting VDR starting

[Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>]

Hi,

Tim Hewett wrote:

> 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
That's fine for that point of operation. The server part is running in VDR. 
You now need to start the client part:

	xine vdr://tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes

Please see the file INSTALL (which is contained in the vdr-xine archive) for 
more information.

Be aware, that at the moment, you cannot operate VDR by pressing keys in xine. 
I currently start VDR in a konsole window and xine's window has just the size 
to be positioned above that window (my resolution is 1280x1024). So I can 
easily operate VDR by activating konsole and typing the keys VDR has learned 
when it was started the first time.

You might have a look at my remote.conf:

	http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/

When I run xine in fullscreen mode, I operate VDR via LIRC.

There are two other plugins, that open a xine window, when VDR is started. See 
VDR's plugin page and look for

	Xv-Xine
	Xinelibout
	
I use xvxine for cutting, because with my plugin you cannot do properly at the 
moment.

Bye.
--
Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
mailto:rnissl@gmx.de




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