X11out-plugin

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Contents 1 Description 2 Hardware requirements 3 Software requirements 4 Installation 5 Problems 6 Links

Description

The X11out plugin is a proof-of-concept study to display the output of X11 via VDR on the TV.

Hardware requirements

Software requirements

• XvFB (virtual X frame buffer - part of X11)
• FFMPEG
• Netpbm

Installation

FFMPEG

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf ffmpeg-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd ffmpeg-<VERSION>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
            --enable-shared
make
make install
ldconfig

Netpbm

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf netpbm-<VERSION>.tgz
cd netpbm-<VERSION>
./configure
make
make package
# install prefix (/usr/local/netpbm) ==> /usr/local
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^
./installnetpbm

See plugin installation

Problems

• This plugin is only a proof-of-concept

Links

[1]	http://www.js-home.org/vdr/x11out	Plugin homepage
[2]	http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net	FFMPEG homepage
[3]	http://netpbm.sourceforge.net	Netpbm homepage