[vdr] VDR help - no OSD provider Available

[Udo Richter]

Gulab Chandra Yadava wrote:
> I have DVB Hauppauge DVB card. 

Do you have a 'full-featured' card (with TV out and mpeg decoder) or a 
'budget' card (without TV-out)?

> I am not getting any OSD for VDR. and I have also installed xine and 
> Mplayer as a plugin to VDR.
> 
> Jun  5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] VDR version 1.3.43 started
> Jun  5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] switched to user 'vdr'

right here there should be lines "loading plugin: xxxx". Are you sure 
you actually load these plugins on command line?

> Jun  5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/setup.conf
[...]
> Jun  5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] found 1 video device
> Jun  5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] ERROR: invalid primary device 
> number: 2
> Jun  5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] ERROR: no primary device found - 
> using first device!
> Jun  5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] setting primary device to 1
> Jun  5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] ERROR: no OSD provider available - 
> using dummy OSD!

VDR could not find any full-featured card for output, and since no 
output plugins were loaded, VDR has nothing to display on.

Check your /var/log/messages around boot time, there should be messages 
related to DVB card detection.

Cheers,

Udo