Dvdswitch-plugin

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Description

Author: Andreas Schmidt

This Plugin plays DVD ISO images and DVD compatible folders. You may also burn images to DVD or read complete DVDs store them on disk. Especially useful for checking images created by Burn-plugin.

Similar functionality is done by the Dvdselect-plugin.

Status

Last Update 03/2013

Images

Software Requirements

Hints:

  • For use inside the plugin, either the full path needs to be provided as #Parameter, or the scripts are put into a location given by PATH env variable.
  • dvdswitch_readdvd.sh script puts his output in /var/log/vdr/readdvd.log, therefore folder /var/log/vdr needs to exist.

Configuration

Parameter

The following command line params exist:

Parameter (short) Parameter (long) Description
-D <LOG> --debug=<LOG> write debug infos into LOGFILE
-r <DATEI> --readscript=<DATEI> script for reading DVDs into ISO image
-w <DATEI> --writescript=<DATEI> script for burining an image
-i <DIR> --imagedir=<DIR> path to DVD images (may be set also in Setup)

Script Parameters

The following params are passed to dvdswitch_readdvd.sh:

  • path of the image to be created
  • image name including file extension
  • DVD burning device (ie. /dev/hd*)
  • if avail. mountpoint in /etc/fstab for burner
  • info wether image should be created as "IMAGE" or "DIR" (folder)

The following params are passed to dvdswitch_writedvd.sh:

  • image name including path
  • image Type (as above: "IMAGE" or "DIR").

Current Version

Links

  1. Plugins Homepage