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* X (in a raw X/Xv/XvMC window) or
* X (in a raw X/Xv/XvMC window) or
* Linux framebuffer/DirectFB
* Linux framebuffer/DirectFB
Built-in image and media player supports playback of most known media files (avi/mp3/divx/jpeg/...) and network radio/video streams (http, rtsp, ...) directly from VDR.
The plugin includes a built-in image and media player that supports playback of most known media files (avi/mp3/divx/jpeg/...) and network radio/video streams (http, rtsp, ...) directly from VDR.
The plugin is already quite usable, but it is still under heavy development (as of pre-1.0.0) -- installing very recent versions of xine-lib and DirectFB (if used) is probably required and possibly even patches to xine-lib may be needed.


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Revision as of 18:53, 11 September 2006

Description

Xineliboutput plugin is a front-end for VDR. It includes a MPEG decoder so a hardware decoder is not needed. Xineliboutput displays OSD and video in

  • X (in a raw X/Xv/XvMC window) or
  • Linux framebuffer/DirectFB

The plugin includes a built-in image and media player that supports playback of most known media files (avi/mp3/divx/jpeg/...) and network radio/video streams (http, rtsp, ...) directly from VDR. The plugin is already quite usable, but it is still under heavy development (as of pre-1.0.0) -- installing very recent versions of xine-lib and DirectFB (if used) is probably required and possibly even patches to xine-lib may be needed.

Info
Info

One has to choose between the xine-plugin and this plugin.


Hardware requirements

Software requirements

  • Xine-lib
  • X11

Installation

Xine-lib

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf xine-lib-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd xine-ui-<VERSION>
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
ldconfig

See plugin installation

Problems

CVS

 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@xineliboutput.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xineliboutput co vdr-xineliboutput

Links

[1] http://www.hut.fi/u/phintuka/vdr Plugin homepage
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/xineliboutput Plugin Sourceforge page and CVS
[3] http://xinehq.de Xine project homepage